I LIBRARY OF COMRESS. I" 

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I UNITED STATES OF AMEKICA.| 



AMERICA YIIDICATED 



JFROM EUROPEAN 



Cljeologito-^olitltal sn^ liifiki ^sj^ersiaiti 



BY 



THOMAS J. VAIDEN, M. J) 



ST. PAUL, M, T. 



IN THE 79th YEAR OP 



AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY. 




NEW YORK: 
MOROAN & O O., 

PEARL AND PLATT STREETS. 
1855. 



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[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, 
By THOMAS J. YAIDEN, M. D, 

ST. PAUL, M. T., 

la the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District 
of New Yorko] 






INDEX. 



American Nationality, 

" Government, Character of 
" Religion, Nationality of . 
Code of Mentality, 
Free Mind and Freemen, 
Schools, 
Institutions, 
" Position, . . 
" the Progressive School. 
'' Mind, . 
" Educational System, 
American's Interest in Faith, 
Americans, What will be best for 
Atheism and Polytheism, 
Analysis of Baron D'Holbach's ^* System of Nature 
" " '- '^ Good Sense," . 

" G. S. Faber's '' Difficulties of Infidelity , 

Action, Unity of, Sustained by Monotheist God, 
Bigots, their Character, ..... 
Conventionalism, Man-s .... 
•' What excludes it? 

*• Innate-Idea 

Conventional Faith, ..... 

'' Free Mind Independent of 

Constitutional Normality of the People, 
Constitution, The United States Monotheist 

Charter, The People's 

Conscience, 

Comte's, A., " Positive Philosophy," Ileview of 
Crimes and Adequate Penalties, 



Page 

11 

33 

36 

70 

90 

91 

91 

94 

279 

280 

286 

121 

312 

95 

126 

132 

238 

309 

65 

13 

35 

37 

53 

62 

41 

88 

111 

118 

209 

305 



IV INDEX ^^^^ 

Code, T\Tiich is Right? 306 

Deity, Demonstration of 38 

*' His Revelation, 80 

*' Existence and Faculty of 88 

*' Qualities of 103 

*^ is a Monotheist, 300 

Deity's Functionary, - 82 

D'Holbach's Atheistic Position on Matter, . . . . 101 
" • '-Laws of the Moral and Physical Word,'- Re- 
view of 154 

Diplomacy of Rule. 298 

Deception, Self 304 

England and the English. 281 

Free Mind, . . ' . . 25, 120 

Faith's Paternity in the Chart of God, 46 

Faith-Organizations, 122 

" ^' Fraudulent Tenure of . . . .58 

" *• Panorama of 124 

" Jurisdiction of . .308 

First Religion, The 81 

Free Mind's Dignity, Honesty, and Integrity, ... 88 

Groundwork of Temptations to be Annulled, ... 16 

Government of Religion, 56 

God's Chart and Autograph, 68 

Good Government, Monotheist, 87 

Human and Book Nature, Perfect Knowledge of . . 14 

Hall, Robert, on Modern Infidelity Considered, . . . 277 

Ideas, Mind's 32 

Infallible Pope, To the 238 

Infallibility, 297 

Immaculate Conception 293 

'^ Mentality, 294 

Language, Purity of 107 

Monotheist Solution of the Universe Problem . , . 13 

'' Revelations 18 

Monotheism Illustrates the Authenticity of Supreme Authority 22 
" Adequate Antecedents of . . ' . . .57 

Monotheist Creation 63, 113 

" Age 72 



INDEX. V 

Page 

Monotheist Age, Lights of the 75 

" Virtues, Test of 83 

'' Triumph 84 

'' Religion is 8G 

" Element, Mentality 93 

" Institutions 97 

•* Causation . . . . . . . , 104 

'• Mentality-Faculty . . . . . . 106 

'' Chart . . 106 

'' Triumph, Vindicated . . . . . . 126 

Mentality, 67 

Faculty 45 

^' Science of ........ 98 

" its Purport and Object, 303 

Mentality's Sacrifice of Religion 73 

Misplaced Confidence 55 

Mind, Right of, over Bibles . . . . . . .64 

'' Pure, Intact, 311 

Man, Civilization of . 115 

Mankind, One Way of Dealing with 306 

Mormonism 295 

Normal Public Sentiment 17 

World, what Convulses it? 79 

Principles Safe for All, 307 

Public Sentiment 66 

Reason, Conscience, and Faith 28 

Religious Teachers, who are 39 

'• What Government and Country is . . . 78 

Religion, Position of . 121 

Revelations .......... 42 

" Universal Realities 54 

<* Vindicate their Author 110 

Reform, Progressive . . . . . . . .44 

Right, Sense of 60 

Responsible, Permanent Committee 71 

*' Universally Dispensed 110 

Radiating Revelations, The World 116 

Spirituality and Immateriality 103 

The World^s Decision 69 



VI INDEX. 

Page 

The Universe, Moral Power of 100 

" Universal Chart Counterfeited . , . . . 119 

" Book or Bible that Furnishes all Ideas . . . 125 

Unity and Perfection 99 

Universe Necessarily, What is 302 

« ** Whence . . . . . .302 



PKEFACE. 



All enlightened and principled Americans will use their 
Constitutional Liberty as the glorious capital of free mind. 
They can never disgrace themselves with the opprobrious 
vices and exponents of foggy kings, when they as freemen 
can give the best examples of honest Republicans. 

They must ever see that the Monotheist question is para- 
mount to and absorbs all others of the universe. And in 
this none are more prominent than Mentality, Honesty, 
Integrity, Consistency, and Justice in all its departments, 
as they constitute the most that the world needs so abun- 
dantly all the time as fidelity to its most responsible trust. 

Partisans of conventional faith may affect charity and all 
its pretensions; but if they have not the intellectual light 
of honesty, integrity, consistency, and justice of mind that 
exalt to mentality, then they are worst of infidels to God's 
noblest creation, and themselves especially. They may 
affect individual or isolated acts for man, but their whole 
life sunlight will be consumed in the merest patchwork for 
general interest and good. 

Mind that permits itself to be the sport of faith that is 



VIII PREFACE. 

false to reason and conscience, is below the dignity of hu- 
man nature. The mentality, honesty, integrity, consistency, 
and justice of mind are that much religion, and the noblest 
part of it to man, who thus realizes the personification to 
Deity through absolute demonstration. 

Mind can never ignore the Monotheist document, whose 
antecedents take precedence of all others, and supersede 
them, atheist and polytheist, as ex post factos. 

This premises the primary function of honor to mind that 
is responsibly as free mind of free men, above all professions 
and types of professions, as all priests and types thereof, 
their aiders and abettors, whether imperial or papal. 

Do mankind expect individuals to act honestly and hon- 
orably? Then they must show the proper pure examples. 
What is the position of all conventional faith? False, with- 
out doubt. 

Infidelity, then, whether Atheist or Polytheist, pro- 
claims false pretenses, and is amenable therefor. All wise 
navigators correct the errors of their reckoning; all wise 
statesmen rectify the errors of legislation. Will, then, the 
bigot of infidel faith, because he enjoys the immunities of 
conspirators in power, affect to be above the necessity of 
amendment, when he is the most criminal of all types? As 
fidelity is consecrated to its moral and intellectual respon- 
sibility, the penalty and expulsion of infidelity for its mis- 
demeanois and crimes must be duly regarded, to repel all 
immorality, turpitude, and depravity. 

If Atheism be with Polytheism the most dangerous 
themes that dictate to mankind, what credit is not due to 



PREFACE. IX 

that faculty that triumphs in their defiance? If Infidelity 
circumvent the immature state of mind by its social diplo- 
macy, freemen of free mind can duly appreciate Monotheist 
institutions that enable them to manage its swindling op- 
erations; and as all faith organizations are absolutely of 
that type, why should men of mature mind acquiesce in the 
acts of its emissaries any longer, in the land of Constitu- 
tional Liberty? 



THE AMERICAN CODE 



OF 



MENTALITY, 



OR 



INFIDELITY, 



13 ONLY EXTINGUJ SUABLE BY 



MONOTHEIST NOEMAL PRmCIPLES. 



This exposition embraces in its review, Compte. in his •' Positive 
Philosophy.-' and the Baron D'Holbach. in his ''Good Sevse and 
System of NatupvE,'- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 



American Nationality. — Nothing can develope American 
Nationality in such bold and characteristic Freedom, as its 
proper appreciation of its Monotheist Government, the 
model to the world, and the greatest lesson to collusive 
despots, who perpetrate the highest treason against the 
people, by the deepest stratagems for the spoils. 

Monotheist institutions were created for the human 
family, and American nationality will be conspicuous for 
the magnanimity of gratitude in perfecting the fullest ex- 
emplification of monotheist principles. 

A perpetual ohgarchy has conspired against the people, 
with the avowed determination to ignore their monotheist 
institutions, the only ones ever devised by God for man, 
who is by nature and principles a monotheist. 

The great victory of the people has to be consummated, 
that their complete triumph may be realized. 

The day of truth-light is advancing, when liberty-loving 
people will not permit mankind to have ecclesiastical and 
military conventionalisms to be dictated to them, when they 
rightfully and absolutely assert all the purity and magnifi- 
cence of God's own chart and chartered statutes. 

Sacrilegious violations of people's rights will be suppressed 
when their triumph is verified by mentality. 

American nationality will be sublimely elevated when it 



12 AMEBIC AVI^rDICATED, 

rigorously discards all the latent ideas of tlie faith-organi- 
zation metaphysics, and invests itself in all the originality 
that free mind alone can impart to freemen. 



American Nationality will he transccndently sublime. — The 
development of monotheist institutions in America must put 
her nationality above all preceding nations and races. 

With her sublime antecedents and progressive multiplic- 
ity of advantages, nothing can arrest its highest sublimity. 

It never can be the apologist of Jewism, Mosaic or affil- 
iation, as it towers over all such conventional metaphysics^ 
representing a race as superior to their authors. 

A lofty and manly sincerity must distinguish free minds 
of free men, as Monotheists, who appreciate religion as 
covering the whole ground, excluding all sectarianism as a 
nonentity, though a faith organization, the political ma- 
chinery that designing conspirators use for spoils. 

No faith organizations ever had or can have religion for 
their devices of diplomacy, as that was inalienable as God's 
monotheist institution. 

American nationality is, then, illustrious by an independ- 
ent thought, word and action, that knows no intermediate 
between mind and its Creator, no revelation but the official 
annunciation of his autograph chart, no authority than that 
of mentality, no benefit but the true offspring from this 
monotheist capital. 

Its dignity knows no superior, as the basis can only orig- 
inate equals. 

Wisdom is the result of its illustrious light, and an un- 
tiring and indomitable energy characterizes its duration. 

Nations that do not feel prepared to follow, are inade- 
quate to appreciate it. 



AMERICA VINDICATED, 13 

The Monotheist Solution of the Universe Prohlem. — Noth- 
ing less than the Monotheist solution of the Universe Prob- 
lem can be duly respected by mind developed in the 
maturity of mentality. Any other is the conventional 
weakness of caste, prejudicial to the very best interests of 
society. The Creator of Man has put a magnanimous con- 
fidence in him, that he cannot betray without a degraded 
condition of mind. 

Man is only required to be just, for God^s liberality in 
the solution of the Universal Problem. 

Whatever is right about it — what is right, \% the para- 
mount question with all wise minds that seek the complete 
triumph of mentality. Does man, professional man, offer 
anything to man without money and price? 

What is the object, the design? 

What claims have any that have their Bible exponents? 
Are they able to prove them? 

No; but they must be taken on trust. 

Are the holders fools, or tools of fools? What is their 
worthless paper, though bound in a book and called a Bible, 
though endorsed by a caste of kings, priests and partisans 
of spoils, worth to free mind of free men? Nothing. But 
it is much worse, as it ever plays false; for its reception 
makes the receiver as bad as the thief. Man has not only 
to keep out of all bad company or association, but keep 
clear of their exponents and property. Touch nothing that 
is theirs. 



Manh Conventionalism can avail nothing. — Upon whose 
authority can man assert his conventional faith or exponent 
to be the model of conscience and rule of action? Only 
upon the assumption of power claimed by Absolutists, im- 
perial spoilsmen of the people. How dare any man to as- 
sume a book is a Bible, when he is convicted of absolute 
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14 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

falsehood in all such? Freemen can only look upon all men 
and books for what they are worth, no more or less. 

What has a freeman to depend on? 

Upon the honorable demonstration of facts always. But 
chattel Mind is compelled to place superstitious faith in the 
false statement of preachers and priests, who are not re- 
sponsible one iota, but are spoilsmen by all such operations. 
A fi'ee mind must consider its paramount duty to investi- 
gate, and return a verdict according to the whole evidence 
and truth demonstrated. 

A freeman cannot believe a professional man because in 
a desk called a pulpit, nor his book called a Bible and en- 
dorsed by spoilsmen. He will Hot put himself in any pre- 
judicial position to compromise his rights, when with them 
pure and undefiled by conventional faith he can defy all 
creation. He has but one way of doing business, and that 
always the best right. 

No paper can be justly accredited, whether bank or 
bible, unless endorsed by responsible authority. Any man 
that assumes that responsibility is the most ignoble swin- 
dler, whether imperial or papal, or any ecclesiastic. 

All ecclesiastical law therefrom is null and void in the 
premises. 

The ^perfect knoivlcdge of hiinan and hook nature. — Man- 
kind, especially Americans, should seek a perfect knowledge 
of human and book nature. Then the people would have 
adequate protection for themselves, before they compro- 
mised their relations of independence and safety. 

What is mind worth, if imbecile or immature? Can hu- 
man nature be safely trusted by it in that state? Under 
what circumstances? Can it be safely under any, when 
advantage is all one way, and all the gain on the side of 
power that monopolizes all practicable and never yields 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 15 

any? When the world becomes prmciple abiding, then the 
people can begin to breathe with safety. 

What is it that the world needs for absolute and ade- 
quate protection? The right use of mind. Americans have 
reached a high solution in this momentous problem, but all 
is yet partial, and much remains for mankind to accomplish. 
The people have been terribly and awfully schooled to the 
very dregs of adversity, for want of correct knowledge of 
human and book nature. As they have the type of abso- 
lutism ever to deal with, even among themselves, they have 
to mature the wisest provision of self-government. What 
code of practice suffices? 

If they cannot put confidence in such a type, all their 
documents and exponents will be entirely worthless and 
nugatory. 

Of what value are all their Bible exponents? 

Who can be responsible for the truth of conventional 
faith documents? Priests, preachers, imperial and papal, 
and creatures that play into their hands? In what can 
their responsibility consist? In their foggy systems? 

Who is so simple as to take the counterfeits of irrespon- 
sible usurpers? 

Are not all the plenipotent elements of Revelation alto- 
gether in the perpetual archives of the Monotheist original? 
Then where is any responsibility of truth, principle or re- 
ligion otherwise? Then mankind must duly respect con- 
servative monotheist principles, to appreciate human and 
book nature most wisely and justly. 

If they are at a loss to appreciate principles, let them 
take honesty, integrity, and justice, if no more, as these will 
protect society, that requires all right and satisfactory. 

What constitutes law unto conscience but principles that 
are normal? 

But the educated bigot revolves in his mind much about 



16 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

the code of Jewism. Can he put extraordinary confideuee 
ia the Jews? In commercial transactions — one of the best 
tests of honorable honesty — the Jews are not singularly 
trustworthy. If mind cannot trust them in this part of 
religion beyond what is usual to man, then it cannot in any 
of their exponents as their bible, or code of Jewism. 

If man do otherwise, he foolishly gives away his mind as 
a chattel, and its rights. For what? Jewism, or ex- 
ponents? 

What will all that profit or avail? As much as shin- 
plasters of a bankrupt swindling bank. But the good 
ministers tender them. Can they be pure that have guilt 
on mind, and hands reeking with impurity? 



The groundwork of Temptation must be annulled. — Who 
is most trustworthy? the principled, or those who forsake 
normal principles? 

Why should the clergy forsake their highest position as 
men, and belittle themselves from men by faith organiza- 
tions from Monotheist institutions? What a fall was there! 
There was the fall of the type — ^not of man. 

Deity fixed all creation right for ever — else there is no 
Deity. All that man has to do, is to have no undertaking 
without having all right and to his best ability. No legis- 
lation, no exponent bible, or any, should be man's subject, 
that would produce temptation to one set of men to be- 
come an autocratical caste, to do with the balance as they 
please. 

Whatever falsifies the normal records of the Monotheist 
God, as all vedas. Mosaic bibles, and affiliation testaments, 
korans, and all the type to the Mormon adulterous plagiary 
do, then mankind have to know human and book nature, 
and resist their base and ignoble temptations, whether dis- 
guised or propelled by brute and bloody force. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 17 

Whenever money is at stake, should not the best safe- 
guards be instituted? 

But if mind be the stake, the highest organ of power, 
of course much more must be the very best safeguards. 

Who will be the safest counsellors to advise the people? 
Those that fatten on their spoils of office, the usurpers and 
retainers — creatures? What will be the proper code for 
their especial benefit? The exponents of usurpers? What 
will give a conscientious conviction of what is right? the 
authors of Conventionalism, or their bible? 



Normal Public Sentiment. — The mighty compulsory fac- 
ulty of normal public sentiment can come to the conserva- 
tive rescue, and give the right direction to society. 

But the impracticable difficulty is, certainly, in regard to 
the authority that is duly authenticated. Why does the 
human family, in this brilliant age, ask of any man a copy, 
when it has the pure original of the monotheist Creator? 

Instead of dependence on designing professions, why does 
not man assert his own manly self-reliance, as far as duty 
requires, and comprehend the solution of his mighty prob- 
lem? The Monotheist only can do this, for mankind can 
give themselves the only true and reliable exposition and 
construction of monotheist revelations. 

No ecclesiastical functionary, no type of Polytheism, Mo- 
saic, or any, have had the moral or intellectual faculty to 
act for free mind, when they only were agents for serfs and 
chattel mind. 

It is not according to the way of Moses, who was totally 
incompetent as a normal leader of society, pagan Jewish 
priestocrat, as he was, nor any conventional way, as all faith 
peculiar is, whether imperial or papal, but the right way 
that normal principles decide. 

Adequate protection of all Qod^s creation is the func- 
2* 



18 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

tion of monotheist institutions. Xo one can monopolize or 
peculiarize them in any department, as Deity created them 
all right forever, and sacred to mind, that must secure its 
universal triumph through mentality. 



Authentic IiUroductian to Monotheist Revelations. — Al- 
mighty light has dawned on mankind, who can profit by its 
reflection in the progressive solution of the greatest ques- 
tion submitted to mentality's analysis, by normal principles. 

The only absolute demonstration of God is total — that 
of the universe ; and that totality is a universal monotheist 
institution, that requires adoption, and defies — triumphs 
over refutation. There is no medium, as the position is 
that of absolute truth or falsehood, monotheist fidelity or 
atheist and polytheist infidelity. The Monotheist now 
know\s the false position of the last adverse to the absolute 
recognition of the Creator. His universal conservation and 
revelation premises him no less the model of unity for moral 
than physical order. This first element of religion conclu- 
sively closes the door to all innovations of conventional 
faith and bible exponents, all organs, ex ]post facto saviours, 
incarnations, the god of Jewism, and all the type of fraud 
on fraud. This annihilation of faith organization assails 
Absolutism in its tenderest and most vulnerable point, as 
it strips it of its nv)st potent means of mind deception and 
plunder. 

There would be an eternal disputation and controversy 
about matter and morals, if the decision were left to con- 
ventionalism, atheist, and polytheist, the last of which varies 
with fashion and interest. 

But Deity left it with his organic monotheist institutions, 
that present a perfection that rule out all conventional im- 
purity and imperfection. 

But does not faith take cognizance of revelations? What 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 19 

revelations are there that reason has not already recog- 
nized? O! bat say the wily absolutists, we mean that oar 
faith, that of our code, should ignore reason that ignores 
faith revelations. 

Then that position about faith is not only false, but fe- 
lonious, and can only be perpetrated by malefactors en- 
dorsed by brute force. 

When this conventional or factitious factious faith is 
sought, normal principles are to be sacrificed. How far can 
man trust an interested profession that forsakes principles, 
the only basis for confidence and good faith between man- 
kind, and asks mind, thus imposed on, to do it for profes- 
sional faith dogmas? Is that profession trustworthy for 
integrity, sincerity of mind? Is not all such of most sus- 
picious, corrupt antecedents, and most miserable results? 

When was mind ever in action, that reason could be 
ignored? The pretended exception about faith proves the 
falsehood of the demagogues. 

If ever the universe, that necessarily includes all revela- 
tions, without any exception, as absolute demonstration 
proves, could be recognized by mind without reason, then 
the doctrine of faith would apply. Then the universe is 
for the recognition of reason forever, that cannot be nega- 
tived by any means; hence the doctrine of faith is a false 
position, that convicts all its advocates of depraved igno- 
rance of the intrinsic organic qualities and functions of mind. 
Reason is the conservative in the watch-tower of liberty. 
Do the demagogues of Absolutism, priest, preacher or 
courtier, ask an ignominious betrayal of this? Why, and 
for whom? The better security of universal despotism, and 
the crushing out the very vitality of popular constitutional 
liberty? 

If faith ignore reason, that false position reacts retribu- 
tively to ignore the soaPs immortality, that can only be 



20 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

won through mentality, that relies on the sacred unity of 
reason, conscience, and good faith, that are united indisso- 
lubly; and, above all, the deity of mentality-faculty , only 
duly appreciated by such monotheist antecedents. But, 
say the advocates. Reason cannot take cognizance of faith, 
as it is a manifestation supernatural to the universe! Then 
that premises the most palpable solecism, a self-contradic- 
tion, an assumption that much untenable as a mystery 
not cognizable at all by mind, that can have no recognition 
in the premises as mind, that can dictatorially decide, that 
ignores its own functions, qualities, integrity, honor and 
mentality. Faith of that character has to be dismissed at 
once by mind, as supernatural to all its faculties, if reason 
be denied access thereto. This is an absolutely certain 
position. 

How comes faith hypocritically to avail itself of reason's 
best though misguided efforts, for success in its cause, not 
only in the execution, but in the special sophist pleading? 
Faith, then, is absolutely the creature of Absolutism, that 
has recklessly sacrificed the holiest faculties of mind, reason, 
conscience, to its lowest idolatry, its most damnable crimes. 
This is the most vicious feature of all idolatry. Faith can 
only be recognized by mind in one of two ways: wisely or 
foolishly. If the first, reason of free mind acts, and the re- 
sult is good faith ; if the last, reason is betrayed to abso- 
lutism of some kind, and mind is not that of conscience, 
but the creature of absolutism, whose only resulting inter- 
est is bad sophist faith. Then it is idle and absurd ever to 
expect available capital from faith abstractedly from mind, 
that cannot act on faith as mind ; consequently it is irre- 
Tgion. What does it all avail to talk of the cardinal points 
of faith or belief, till we have proper evidence of facts? 
Whether gospel or record, have we the absolute evidence 
of its purity? What of anything incontestibly proved by 



AMERICAVINDICATED. 21 

the Scriptures, when they require of themselves incontesti- 
ble proof? They require recognition of mentality ere their 
doctrines are fully recognized, or their articles or dogmas of 
faith can be established. The audition of mind has to 
recognize them only through the nature and rules of normal 
evidence. All their formal articles of faith are nugatory 
and negatived, till normal evidence declares the proof of 
the Scriptures. But all this is done by iuiplicit obedience, 
or faith. To whom can free mind yield such? 

Who should yield implicit passive obedience? Free 
mind? Americans hold, and therefore can exchange, no 
chattel mind. How then can they take chattel faith of 
kings, organs, or exponents for monotheist institutions? 
Can wise men mistake brass for gold? But mankind are 
only besought to yield faith to preachers, the holy gospel 
men of God. Then fatal poison is a holy gift, if it be 
gilded by a fine material disguise. 

What are all ecclesiastical organs to free men? Can 
they be less on their guard in respect to preachers or 
priests, or all other professional diplomatists? But these 
people have so holy a calling. Indeed! Have they no 
prelates of power or salary? Is that nothing? What is 
the reason? The preachers are so harmless. What less 
than supremacy of free mind has made them so, from a 
powerful hierarchy of their own usurpation? 

They organized the pagan and dramatic fatal doctrines 
that destroyed the worth of independent mind in Asia and 
Europe, and attempted it in America. 

Truly, their gospel doctrines are not for popular good 
and action. They excite, instead of silencing every doubt 
and removing all dissatisfaction. 

The American school has already rightly and nobly com- 
menced the solution of this mighty vital problem, and its 
immortal glory will triumph in its completion. 



22 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

Tkt test of Authenticity and Sujprcme Authority is best il- 
lustrated by fo.ithful Monotheist demonstration. — This is the 
age of demonstrative light, not of chattel mind in abeyance 
to the faith, that is, the orders of absolutists, kings, priests, 
and satellites. What can give a general passport to mind^s 
implicit confidence? 

The Creator, monotheist God, and his institutions, radi- 
ate and secure the only implicit confidence, while all oth- 
ers are expressly conventional, made to order to speculate 
on mind's credulity, at the expense of its honor and advan- 
tage, of all which it is the noblest act of religion to dis- 
abuse it. But bigots will affect to know — why argue any 
such question as that of religion or faith, as all will be an 
endless controversy? 

This position proves a want of sincerity, or of compre- 
hension of the question, as that alone demonstrates that 
normal principles determine all matters submitted to 
mentality. 

Why, then, are there triple views, Monotheist, Atheist, 
and Polytheist, on this subject, when only one can be 
right? The object of this work, as already premised, is to 
demonstrate the triumph of Monotheist comprehension, 
which settles the whole controversy forever, and estops all 
pretenses, even, therefor. 

In vain do advocates exert themselves to authenticate 
their conventional notions, as of their bible of faith, their 
necessity of nature. 

They may assume that the Mosaic code is isolated, by 
its antiquity, above all such type-faith exponents. They 
will find all that erroneous, as the bibles of China and 
Egypt claim, without doubt, a much higher antiquity. 

The special pleaders of all faiths may assert that there 
are no books beyond their bibles. That proves nothing to 
the specialty of their assumptions, for after all their high- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 2'6 

est and loudest claims, the thousand different bibles are 
only the exponents of their conventional faith, as that of 
Jewism or those of its affiliations. 

But what is all their conventional faith worth to. naen- 
tality, the normal faculty of mind, that knows only religion, 
and can have, by monotheist premises, no confidence at all 
therein, as all such faiths and exponents are the veriest 
fabrications for merchandise, speculation, and diplomacy? 

The very type of bibles, as the Mosaic, have left unre- 
vealed the very revelations, those of religion, that mentality 
has absolutely needed, and given those, so called, that have 
had the most pernicious effect on the human family, as a 
piece of ridiculous mockery, the veriest patchwork bur- 
lesque of the universe, the first principle of which all bible 
types are incompetent to express. Of course, all conven- 
tional bibles are any other than Monotheist revelations ; 
hence they are indisputably dangerous faith-dogma expo- 
nents, only intended to subserve the political diplomacy of 
absolutists and partisans. 

Who has ever considered the dangers of conventional 
faith, that is by infallible construction any and everything 
that subserves the aggressions of Absolutism, whether of 
monarchical or democratic despotism and anarchy, and that 
lays a foundation, a perpetual basis, for fatal controversy 
and antagonism to constitutional liberty, a heresy to nor- 
mality? What, settle all difficulties of bibles and Atheist 
conventionalism by normal principles? Why, then, do not 
the good and virtuous array themselves exclusively under 
their banners, and act out consistently the whole duty of 
Monotheists? 

The mind that adheres to conventionalism of faith or 
government, when a rightful change for the better is prac- 
ticable, is an enemy to the human race, to its highest and 
noblest duty and happiness. 



24 A M ERICA VINDICATE D. 

The mail who claims absolutism of any kind in this age, 
is a sophist or the worst tool, as that allows for no pro- 
gressive developments of the human mind, to extricate it- 
self from the wants and errors of its infantile, its pagan, 
metaphysical state. 

Mind, then, must be ever made independent of all faith 
organizations and exponents. 

If pure republicanism, secured by our constitution, is in- 
dependence of kingly government, and to be so it separates 
from faith organizations, with what consistency can its en- 
lightened and patriotic citizens adhere to their exponents, 
their bibles? 

No conventional faith of atheist or polytheist dogma is 
accredited by normal principles. All argument against the 
supreme authority of the last is an idle w^ordy controversy; 
hence mentality has the only argument for sense and light 
to be decided by normal principles, not the corrupt base of 
sophistry. 

It is essentially beneficial to the greatest good of the 
world, to enable it to estop all conventionalism and expo- 
nents as overreaching the benefits of normality. All good 
citizens must see it in this light, and ever argue for its dif- 
fusion. 

Yet, nevertheless, preachers and priests dissent thereto. 
Let them be most certainly heard, if they can establish cor- 
rect premises of audition; if not, they should be forever 
after silent. 

If they claim by reason of their books, they are only the 
exponents thereof, the representatives of paper nonentities, 
nullities — none other than counterfeits. The preachers of 
a gospel have no more in the premises than their creden- 
tials, that are utterly excluded by monotheist premises and 
antecedents. If they claim anything in professional faculty, 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 25 

they trade on the capital of monotheist institutions, that is 
not intrinsically theirs. 

If as men they claim to be heard, they can only appear 
as Monotheists, and that entirely excludes their pretensions. 

As men, they can claim nothing for themselves as preach- 
ers of any conventional faith, however great and good they 
may have been thought for years by their circle. It will 
turn out on due analysis that they had not been thoroughly 
known, as the monotheist public can with no justice have 
any confidence in them. 

Neither polytheists in their desperation, nor atheists in 
their extreme necessities, need say aught of monotheist 
fidelity, as it is triumphantly vindicated in the single and 
sublime fact that the universe is the consummation of or- 
ganizations that necessarily had a beginning, and must 
have their causator, whose conservation and revelation are 
universally demonstrated. 

It becomes the advocates of Atheism and Polytheism to 
discard their isms, inter their infidel bantlings, and here- 
after do justice to their monotheist birth-life and mind- 
right, become practical Monotheists, with grace, the most 
becoming humanity and mentality. 



Of what utility is Mind, unless it be free Mind? — Free 
mind alone advances to the dignity and merit of mentality, 
that is competent to render a verdict according to the evi- 
dence of facts, not according to conventional faith, that is 
universally discredited. Constitutional liberty defenders 
have to reject all patent faith swindles, exponents, and in- 
carnations, though kings, priests, and spoilsmen stand faith- 
fathers, and endorse them by their perjury. 

They can never dishonor themselves or their conscience 
by these dishonored paper exponents, under any name, 
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26 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

bibles or other, especially when they see the inevitable 
effects of hypocrisy and deception, above all, of retribu- 
tive justice in the resulting evils of bloodshed to incarna- 
tions, and nations disgraced as the Jews and Gipsies. Of 
what utility is free mind, but to know all the evils that 
assail it, especially all the counterfeits from paper bibles 
and patent exponents, unprincipled ministers. They will 
meet the crisis at the right point, and not believe Moses 
the priest could be a statesman, especially when he ruined 
his nation by serfish diplomacy. 

They will not leave the monotheist religion of God for 
the faith of political intrigue. 

Having all adequate provision in monotheist institutions, 
they can never be swindled out of reason and its conserva- 
tive faculty, for pretenses of faith that gives all advantages 
to its biting organs, imperial, papal, or ecclesiastical. 

Monotheists know and demonstrate the false position of 
the atheist and polytheist infidelity. Their prediction, 
predicated on the science of facts, is supreme to all polythe- 
ist pretenses of prophesy. 

This union contains many latter-day saints and Millerite 
prophets, all as good as the first-day saints and prophets, 
only that mind is not the chattel now as then. The card 
of pagan conventional faith wont take in all sensible and 
respectable circles of society, as conventional humbugs are 
at a discount therein. Mentality, as necessarily and pure- 
ly monotheist, can know no intermediates between itself 
and the God of mentality-faculty, but his monotheist ante- 
cedent perpetual institutions, and must hold itself responsi- 
ble for its wisest administration of mind. 

But how came the ancients not to know God? Is not 
that a direct proof of Mosaic revelations? Absolutely, not; 
for Moses, who did not know God, who is purely and alto- 
gether monotheist as God, and- certainly not a Mosaic 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 27 

character or revelation, was the exponent of Jewism and 
serf laws subservient to individual, national, and interna- 
tional wrong, and certainly not of monotheist institutions, 
whose absolute revelations ignore him and all his ignoble 
type forever, to their complete end. But the bigots refuse 
to amend, and affect that the world shall not take away 
their bible. Poor deluded fanatics! they have no bible; 
for they, aliens and heathens, have abstracted the bible of 
Jewism, as expressly proclaimed, xiv., 21 of Mosaic revised 
statutes, or Deuteronomy: ''Ye shall not eat of anything 
that dieth of itself; thou shalt give it unto the stranger 
who is in thy gates, that he may eat it: or thou mayst sell 
it unto an alien: for thou art a holy people unto the Lord 
thy God." 

How dare any than a Jew use the bible of Jewism, see- 
ing that the Jews treated him with scorn and contempt, 
giving him, if their guest, what they would not eat, or sell- 
ing it to him if not of their house and nation. What hon- 
orable high-minded American can wish such exponents? 

But the enthusiast says, Give me a better bible first. 

A man has stultified his mind that cannot or will not see 
that God has given that only, that universal one. 

But theirs is the New Testament — the second story built 
on the first. What does that signify to an honest mind of 
sense? What does such need of a being that consented to 
his own murder, a suicide, that brought on himself the re- 
sentment of a fanatical nation? Is he better than Socrates? 
Of what virtue and potency was an incarnation? His most 
fatal blow has been struck to himself and his partisans by 
his own stupid folly: like the foolish witness, he said too 
much and killed his own testimony, worse than the world's 
opposition, which had been nothing had his mission been 
genuine when he assumed to say (Mark xvi., 18), ''And 
these signs shall follow thein that believe: In niy name they 



28 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

shall take up serpeuts; and if they drink any deadly thing 
it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, 
and they shall recover.'^ 

But his followers have not adequate faith! What a 
compliment to them, thus branded as hypocrites. Could 
he control the elements? If none perform these results, the 
whole is a farce, a humbug, and this Christ is false, as the 
Jews, who only could know, have justly decided. 

It is absolutely certain that mind is in a progressive state 
to mentality, verified by improvements in every department 
of life essential to the beneficiary. Mentality of this day 
can only recognize the unity of Deity, by the unity of uni- 
versal consummation, the totality of universal causes and 
effects. 

The moderns are modest enough to have the universe 
teach their reason the demonstration of facts, unlike the 
ancients, who ignorantly took all for granted, as vassals 
from masters, who absurdly dictated their innate-idea con- 
ventional nonentities. 

What, then, is it that man wants — needs? 

Nothing at all that priests can sell or give. Other 
materials are essential than ecclesiastical merchandise or 
chattels ; other than ecclesiastics ever thought of or can 
control. 

Man needs only the pure gifts of his monotheist God. 



The noblest introduction to Mentality is the glorious union 
of Reason, Conscience, and Faith. — The brightest era of all 
is about to dawn on mankind, but the development of the 
monotheist age reflects on mind of the world, that is not 
adequately posted up to its requisitions or munificence. 

The benefactors of the human race must premise all the 
essential elements that give vitality to adequate results. 

The characteristic of American nationaUtv evinces most 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 29 

of mental integrity, by having all transactions in the uni- 
verse on the basis of fair and honorable business, all re- 
ligion and government above all contingencies, all men and 
professions as the only vital conservative. 

Mentality discloses the avoidance of all conventional 
faiths, that invariably produce as most ignominious results, 
black mail on credulous people, who in all ages of the 
world ever pay, invariably, sooner or later, the ignoble pen- 
alty for credulity. 

Conventional faith loses its spell in the consciences of 
mankind, as the last become normally enlightened by men- 
tality progressing in the light of mind, that it rescues from 
the extortion and oppression of the spoils party. 

When competent to repel all black mail, then mind can 
comprehend its constitutional liberty. It is perfectly idle 
and nugatory to affect the last, until mind unqualifiedly ra- 
diates supreme from centre to circumference, and holds all 
in abeyance by the potent elements of mentality. • 

Is there to be any concession of vested rights to man or 
his exponent faculty? 

Then most wisely must mind guard every avenue by all 
rightful responsibility. 

When reason, conscience, and faith are blended in one 
harmonious unity, that secures the most faithful assent 
and approval of all, then mind's independency reflects its 
sublimest lustre, and rules out anarchy and despotism of 
absolutists; then all free minds can secure the application 
as monotheist. 

But for this loftiest position, vain would be the hope to 
insure exemption from extortion and sophistry of the most 
revolting diplomatic duplicity. 

The noble man of free mind, the only one that is noble, 
has to rely on its normal behests for vital security. He 
has to consult his model God through his monotheist chart 
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30 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

and ideas, that ignore all others as infidelity, and confirm 
what is the only reliable position about religion. 

Assured by unerring demonstration of his duty, his 
fidelity will be perpetuated as most sacred to monotheist 
institutions, that are absolutely confirmed to the exclusion 
of all else as nonentities. 

What is all infidelity but usurped authority? What 
does any country gain by it? 

Even in this Union, that can embrace the continent and 
appurtenant islands, all must be regulated by the most jus- 
tice, and mutual respect for individuals — state and national 
denizen rights secured as the greatest good to all. 

Whoever organizes his conventional faith, detracts that 
much from religion and government and the rights of free 
mind. What, then, can be the will of Mentality, but the 
wisest normal position on monotheist principles? Can that 
be trammeled by faith, all organizations of which are inade- 
quate to exhibit the great and magnificent feature of Deity, 
or the genuine revelations of his autograph? There is no 
good and sufficient reason. 

Analysis presents the clearest demonstration that Athe- 
ism and Polytheism, that are necessarily only one type re- 
bellious to normal principles, are demolished as nonentities, 
and therefore the world can be no longer disturbed by in- 
fidelity of them whenever mind can reach the matured fac- 
ulty of mentality, its monotheist custodian and conscientious 
monitor, that has ever to counteract, on the watch-tow^er 
of its constitutional liberty, all the dynasty of infidelity to 
God and man, acting on the presumption to make its con- 
ventional faith, religion, and all available out of mankind 
by avarice and ambition. 

All enlightened Americans must require, as the noblest 
conservative, that all associations and organizations of the 
world should be under the control of normal principles. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 31 

whether of government or faith, and should be ever held 
immediately responsible to mentality. 

Constitutional liberty will never license man only to 
make fanatical capital out of monotheist institutions, an 
organized band to carry out faith and its world-disturbing 
policy, never practicable otherwise than by the collusion of 
governmental power. The creation is the constitution of 
Deity, that most clearly cannot permit any ej: post facto re- 
strictions or compromises of nonentities. Mankind abso- 
lutely need not only the absolute protection from all arbi- 
trary codes of faith monarchies, but an adequate progress. 

What a mighty progress has been within less than a cen- 
tury, from the chattel age of mind to the brilliancy of con- 
stitutional representation of denizens in this glorious Union! 

The American people will not compromise by vain ex- 
periments more than what is practicable, and in the best 
practicable way for practicable national good. 

The world cannot be altogether reformed at once. Civi- 
lization is progressive as mind is expansive. A constitu- 
tion transcendently magnificent, as near perfection as state 
sovereignties and circumstances permitted, is before the 
world for the wisest exercise of religion and government. 
Is the world worthy of it? 

The United States present a constitutional representa- 
tive government of denizens, the highest standard for free- 
men to aspire to. 

Does any such need a higher conservative code, for 
apology of using that of black-mail faith? We cannot be 
justified in sight of reason, conscience, and good faith of 
mind. 

The intelligent freeman has the constitutional mantle of 
civilization that governs the dark ages, the murders and as- 
sassinations, the massacres and wars of the Bible and 
its faith. 



32 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

What arrested the butchery of men, women, and chil- 
dren of past ages, for bible nonentities, as witchcraft, but 
the monotheist light of truth? What enlightened denizens 
of the world can ever neglect this effulgent light, more and 
more diffused in favor of the people? None but the miser- 
able bigot can resist it. 



Whence does Mind receive its Ideas? — This absolutely 
settles the whole question of all revelations and dispensa- 
tions forever. 

Mind receives all its ideas from the universal fund of 
revelations, and ever has done so since its creation, directly 
and altogether from the universe, that is the sole organ of 
Deity. On this depend all law, all principles normal. As 
mind has this whole fund only directly from the universe, 
the chart and charter of Deity, through which God^s 
universal language, that of ideas, is spoken, it protests 
against all others, while it invites discussion universally. 
Moses and affiliations, and all the types of priests, whether 
of ancient or modern mythology, all atheistic necessity and 
nature are denounced as pagan libellers of the monotheist 
God and all his institutions, to the beneficiary human 
family. 

The highest duty of mind, then, is to investigate and 
decide rightly, on positive absolute demonstration, for the 
God of the universe. Mind is then necessarily monotheist, 
and mentality has to teach it its monotheist duty. It can 
adopt no other to suit monarchical, papal, or imperial 
priests, or confide in the assertions of mosaic libellers. 
Then mind asserts its glorious independence of free mind, 
and is to religion what a freeman is to his government — 
both right. 

The true knowledge of human nature is to read the 
universe, the only direct fund of thoughts, w^ords, and 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 33 

deeds — God's ideas — the vital panorama. The purpose is 
distinctly monotheist. and that decides the highest purpose 
of mentality. This sublime position enables mentality to 
rule the powerful combinations of collusive monarchs, priests 
and partisans, papal and imperial regimes, colleagued 
against the people to silence and outrage mind in its mono- 
theist vested rights — above all, the hardened wretches whose 
hardihood of conspiracy against the conservative morals of 
society seeks the vilest endorsement of irresponsible atheists 
that there is no God, and the spoils of polytheists, who 
palm off their mercenary idolatry and faith for religion. 



Jlie American is a Monotheist Government. — This is the 
first divine government ever instituted by mentality, and 
is accredited by the sublimest, because normal principles. 

But monarchical regimes are those of bigotry ! What 
can be worse bigots than governments, the sworn policy 
and defense of which is bigotry of church ? Their strength 
is that of bigotry of Church and State united, of course 
against principles that are of normal quality. How have 
faith-bigots ruled? Theirs is a history of aggressive 
wrongs on principles. They claim, as the Mormon Church, 
that is united to State, and is therefore anti-republican, to 
be a licensed ecclesiastical right, and wish to crush the 
world to their bigotry. What hopes are there for the rule 
of principles, religious liberty, when usurping bigots get 
the ascendancy of State? 

Their self-love and interest outweigh all other considera- 
tions. They respect no law but at their dictation, and that 
guaranteeing their faith policy. 

Their regime exists, and can only exist, on their usurped 
dictation. Public sentiment of monarchies is thus moulded, 
and has absorbed the best rights of mankind. What hopes 
can exist that public sentiment can ever be correct and 



34 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

high toned, except in a monotheist government? Mo- 
narchical faith-mongers traffic soul-rights — vested rights, 
for a paper bible — the speculative card of demagogical 
capital — endorsed by royalty, and upheld by the brute 
force of its standing armies. All faith organizations are 
thus martially vindictive to the people, and fatally oppres- 
sive to their vested rights. 

What use have the people for these costly free gifts of 
monarchical cliques, that are fatal to all their vested 
rights? All that the world needs is the demonstrative 
recognition of the universe as chart and charter of Deity, 
and its uniform resulting interests normally taught to all 
citizens for their uniform standard, guidance and protection. 

The American Republic, as a constitutional representa- 
tion on normal principles, is the first religious government 
on earth known to the author. It is, therefore, the first 
pure monotheist government, and can be most triumphantly 
vindicated. 

Ancient regimes have existed in abundance, called re- 
publics, as Greece and Rome, but they were all vitiated 
by their faith-political organizations. 

Athens, the most renowned of Greece for her advance of 
civilization, was the scene of the polytheistic assassination 
of Socrates, for his reformation of the Church united to the 
State, and Rome was ruled by a politico-theocratical oli- 
garchy, at best a martial and ecclesiastico-political despot- 
ism. Till very recently, even the modern republics have 
had their union of Church and State, unconscious, if they 
claimed otherwise, of an oligarchical regime of theologico- 
political supremacy. 

Switzerland, that within a few years past was mangled 
by a civil canton war, by two faith factions of govern- 
mental sanction, wa5 that much less a pure religious 
republic. 



A M ERICA VINDICATED. 35 

The strength of all monarchies lies in the strictest union 
of Church and State, endorsed by the executive as the de- 
fender of the first, and npheld as advanced by martial 
prowess. 

Any republic that has come into alliance with a church, 
has found it adulterous, and that much less the purity of 
trne government of the people. What can the disinter- 
ested part of mankind, if such there can be for a moment, 
expect of any courtiers of monarchical regime but an- 
tagonism to our constitutional representative government, 
that has most wisely separated from all church and faith 
organizations? 

These antagonist aspersers of the want of religion in our 
government owe all their paternity to the hot-bed of 
monarchical conventionalisms — all factitious. 



Normal Monotheist Principles exclude all Conventional- 
ism. — Normal principles, as recognized by mentality, pre- 
mise the sublimest utilitarianism to mankind. They are 
appreciated by mind, that first studies ideas that introduce 
it to its universal chart — the maturity of nature. 

The universe, as one mighty whole of cause and effect, 
introduces mind, become mentality, to its causator God, 
the monotheist Creator, and no other, as there ideas estop 
mind. 

This position is immutable, that mind never can resign, 
as its vested rights. On these monotheist elements the 
faculty of mentality is perpetually increasing and develop- 
ing. These elements, as monotheist principles, exclude all 
conventionalism — that is, the nonentity of innate ideas or- 
ganized by a conspiring oligarchy, monarchical, hierarchal 
or sacerdotal and martial, all the spoils party against the 
vested rights of mind that cannot be alienated. 

Whence originated, where were concocted, excogitated 



36 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

and elaborated all faith organizations and bibles, codes of 
the whole type from time immemorial? In the perfidious 
brains of theologico-politicians. 

Kings have aided them as coadjutors in the collusion, 
and enforced this spoils system by rufiian soldiers, the low- 
est menials of dirty foul work, conspiring against their own 
bosom friends and fellow-beings. Which of the trinity is 
lowest in the scale of human degradation? 

Against all such the republican world, so horridly de- 
nounced by them, has to be adequately guarded. As the 
infidelity of Atheism is more powerful than that of Poly- 
theism in subtilty, that effectually combated lays both 
dead, and reinstates monotheist institutions wherever and 
whenever mentality can act for the people. 



The Nationality of American Religion, — The great char- 
acteristic of its transcendent purity is, that it is identified 
with the greatest practical good to mankind, and above all, 
that it is separate from national faith, the peculiar property 
of kings, priests, and their co-conspirators — the oligarchy. 

This is one of the great types of mind, in its broadest 
elements of expansive magnanimity. 

This presents the model of elevation for the enlighten- 
ed progressive soul. This provides for the efficient reaction 
of mind in its progressive and conservative development. 
While our government is the only religious one, it is not 
thus appreciated. 

It needs no apologists for want of monarchical faiths, 
the organization of which is always corrupt. The Ameri- 
can national character was formed amid the wilds of pro- 
vincial life, on the borders of Indian warfare, daring of 
individuality. 

This is the evidence of eminence of race that originally 
proved its potency on the prowess of petty sovereignty, 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 37 

that excluded the weaker from the precincts of home. The 
great monotheist elements of mind and institutions pro- 
duced the foundation that sublimated the national charac- 
ter of America. The question now, at the rise of this 
great age, Who of all nations has reached the highest pin- 
nacle of sublimity? 

That nation is America, through her government. It 
burst forth in IT 16, and has been realizing its good inde- 
pendent magnanimity before the world. Free mind cannot 
mar it by any pagan code. American is a religious mag- 
nanimous character, that takes the sequestered self-hea- 
thenish Japanese by the hand, and risks its life for strug- 
gling neighbors seeking liberty. 

This nationality has justly discarded the morbid relic of 
European faith-organizations, and stands forth in mono- 
theist prominence. 



What does the ivorld need of innate-idea Convenlional- 
ismsl — The glorious American school needs none at all in 
this utilitarian age of facts, not of nonentity-innate ideas. 

Faith and political factions, the dangerous corrupt inno- 
vations on monotheist institutions, feel embittered toward 
each other. The great American people will ever rise supe- 
rior to them, and never permit themselves to be trammeled 
thereby, as adult children or puerile adults. There is no 
good result attendant on any factions that have agitated 
the world to its ruin. 

Can man be defrauded by faitli, when monotheist insti- 
tutions are perfectly triumphant? Is it possible that the 
divine mentality-faculty could have delegated to irresponsi- 
ble agents the very means of feud, when his own monothe- 
ist institutions insure peace? 

The last are the only evidence of such divine faculty. If 
man let mercenary conspirators defraud him with impunity, 
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38 A M E R I C A VINDICATED. 

they will use him up completely. He must guard his mind 
against all avenues of fraud that are contemplated, enacted 
by faith-policies, the most dangerous because most insidious 
perfidy of intriguing diplomacy. 

What can resist self-interest, of any kind, endorsed by 
adequate analogous self-endorsed power? 

What other, in all its type, is faith-organization? 

Can the feeble barriers of conscience, not of religion, but 
of faith-organizations? The first, then, is the subject of 
the last, and is entirely nugatory or powerless. Who but 
Deity and his representative principles, that are entirely 
adequate for the universal object? Pagan mind has not 
been competent to this analysis of this leading subject. 

Who has the exclusive trust of creation? 

The Creator, w^ho is therefore monotheist, and the model 
of monotheist creation and universal adoration, from whom 
ray all perfections and virtues, his radial halo, moral lights 
that endow man, the object with monotheist universal 
elements of civilization. 



Absolute demonstration of Deity is Universal and Mono- 
theist. All who honor their word hy thought and deed, ivill 
aver that. — Absolute demonstration decides the vital ques- 
tion, that mankind cannot recognize the idea of God, 
without the universe, nor ignore him with it ; hence the 
absolute, the sole demonstration of the Creator is universal 
and monotheist. This demonstration absolutely excludes 
both branches of infidelity, polytheistic and atheistic, as 
unw^orthy the thought, word, or deed of mind that is under 
absolute obligation to conform to demonstrative requisi- 
tions. This much w^ould be adequate for mentality, the 
normal excellence of mind, but as the w^orld embraces the 
last in various states of progression, the position must be 
appropriately illustrated. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 39 

Atheism has assumed, with most plausible metaphysics, 
motion, nature, and necessity, for mind to regard as supreme 
— nature or the universe is assumed a cause, yet it displays 
necessary phenomena of cause and effect — the supreme and 
subordinate that are irreconcilable in one and the same 
being, and subordinate it to the abeyance of supremacy. 
Nature is assumed to move by her own energy, and yet 
that motion is ^' a necessary consequence of its own hetero- 
geneity." — Baron D^Holhach^s Good Sense, page 23. 

Nature^s heterogeneity demonstrates organization a ''nec- 
essary existence,'^ that respects absolute existence. The 
author assumes that ''matter has, then, the power of self- 
motion,'^ when bodies are "placed in a fit situation to act 
upon one another.'' That is not "self-motion" as tested 
by mixing meal and water, for the apposition is nothing- 
less than primary motion. Hence, all this is the miniature 
universe of matter, the miniature organization, by the 
antecedent preparation and approximation. These are 
two qualifications and modifications of a primary mover, 
not inherent, but relational or relative motion that is neces- 
sarily subordinate : as to the polytheistic branch, all its 
assumptions are as easily refuted if ever established — all 
its types of creeds, faiths, bibles, and organizations are 
grotesque and illicit copies of the autograph chart. 



Who are the Religious Teachers, the Conservators of 
Popular Morals! — Can any professors or types be, when 
none such are perfect ? What sort of calculations do the 
clergy make ? Will they affect to dictate their dogmas on 
the world ? Can they honorably and truthfully affect that 
past pagan ages, ideas, and mind, and its codes moulded to 
one idea, are to rule the world, when all science is pro- 
gressive, and all its books are its mere exponents ? 

Of course they do, when they parade a book of ecclesi- 



40 A M ERICA VINDICATED. 

astical coiiveutionalisra as oue of the standards for con- 
science, that can never be conventional, and when none but 
normal standards only can fill the normal demands of 
mind in its sablimest state of mentality. Then none but 
normal organic principles can be. These are the revela- 
tions from God, through his universe, that exhibits them 
complete and in full life ; hence, any other, though ostensi- 
bly endorsed by all the world's fashion and power's pres- 
tige, is uncurrent, because counterfeit. The last conspire, 
by illicit means, to despoil with sinister prepense designs, 
and are obnoxious to all honest people for their nefarious 
schemes, affecting to be holier than the original, which 
they libel; that is most of what they can do, while exposure 
exhibits their utter depravity and deformity. 

Normal education requires mankind to sustain their mind 
in purity of thought, word, and deed, and consecrate it to 
demonstration as men — monotheists. Man, on this earth, 
is not perfect in his paramount duty, that he has ever to 
execute, in regard to the physical and moral atmosphere, 
the variable current of which may be fatally stagnant, or 
destructively stormy, Monotheist principles work their 
own good results. 

The Baron D'H. seeks to persuade princes that they 
would ''become the sole guides of their subjects,'^ if they 
governed them rightly. He does not comprehend the laws 
and elements of minds. The people of mentality would 
seek the same sources of political jurisprudence — constitu- 
tional representative government. They would dismiss all 
ministers not their peers, as the people could better read 
and practice the same authority. 

Mentality, then, the normal excellency of mind, is the 
normal religious teacher, the conservator of popular morals. 

The Baron admits that atheism 'Ms not made for the 
multitude." What was it made for, then ? Sophists ? Now 



AMERICA V 1 N D I C A T E D « 41 

if the people are not generally qualified for atheism, it 
proves its disqualification for the people. The Baron could 
not have written for the age or latitude of free mind, that 
traverses all those of thought. The same category applies 
to polytheism. Mind becomes gloomy and despondent, to 
traverse these miserable and sad apologies of convential- 
isms — the beastly necessity of never-ending dissolutions of 
mere nature ; but that changes, like the darkest period 
just preceding the brightest dawn, into the most triumphant 
feeling, the most glorious emotion, when all atheism and 
polytheism are absolutely prostrated by the effulgent rays 
of monotheist light. As the beautiful provision of > the 
mother that breathes for her enwombed progeny, which is 
thus sustained by pure blood, and when matured, becomes 
a breathing spirit in this world from its chrysalis state, 
identifies a monotheist existence, so its soul as a monotheist 
mentality, with an identity immortal, transcends the en- 
wombed universe to its author mentality-faculty, the 
normal excellence of divine mind, of perfect. Almighty, 
creative faculty. 

Mentality, then, the faithful normal faculty of mind, 
cannot ignore the laws of its being nor the principles of its 
creation, when it must transcend the universe with abso- 
lute demonstration, into the presence of an immortal frui- 
tion, which becomes a reality in its hierarchal identity. 
Having been introduced into the audience of immortality 
by its functions, how then can it be rightly excluded ? 

God's creation had been a useless institution, unless 
monotheist, and adequate to bless and perpetuate men- 
tality or the soul itself, a proper return for expenditure 
and creative investments. 



The Constitutional Normality of the People is above all 
Orthodoxy. — Mentality meets the whole question, and vin- 
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42 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

dicates, as demonstrates the normal position, the highest, 
because monotheist functions. 

Self-preservation, that looks to demonstration, ever re- 
quires reason. In all departments we take the reason of 
mind. Can there be any exception for faith ? Not unless 
faith can dictate, and that decides that mind is enslaved 
to dictation. 

Can American free minds, that absolutely know that the 
responsible mentality of normal education decides rightly in 
all departments of mind, yet assent that the great delusion of 
the world fanatics should dictate that faith, bible faith, is all 
above reason? The American school that is uprightly 
progressive will not license this abominable fallacy, this 
murderous sophistry of Asiatic despotism. Mind thus 
divided between reason and faith, cannot exist on the 
noblest principles of eternal consistency. If self-preserva- 
tion be not con^istently upheld by both, as ever expedient 
and absolutely essential, both branches of infidelity will 
cause mind to ignomiuiously surrender at discretion to its 
myth revelations and metaphysics, that induce despotism 
and anarchy. 

Without mind is sustained adequately by reason and 
faith, who knows what is right from what is criminal? 
Thus the darkest deeds of conspirators against popular 
rights have been perpetrated by the fatal disunion. Divide 
reason from faith, and you abstract mentality from mind, 
religion from mankind, and reward from merit. Reason 
and faith, in the wisest and affectionate union, can defy all 
the hoary hardened conspirators of the world. 



Revelations. — Christianity, as all the thousand faiths, 
claims revelations through their bibles. How can they do 
so truthfully, when they ignore thereby the normal princi- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 43 

pies of religion? How shall mind, to which all are ad- 
dressed, decide the question with unerring: certainty? 

Normality, that comprehends the universe, alone decides 
for monotheist institutions, while conventionalism decides 
all the balance are idolatries and worthless substitutes of 
revelations, the caricatures and libels of Deity. 

No authority is entitled to speak but that of Deity. 
How does mind know that? How can it appreciate reve- 
lation? By faith. That is not adequate, unless it is en- 
dorsed by reason and the demonstrative facts of reason; 
otherwise faith must be thrown off from mind. This is the 
conservative position of mind. This absolute truth is un- 
deniable, except with the spoils party, who is bankrupt in 
morals. 

What is their faithless faith worth to the people? The 
dignity of the monotheist age decides the department of 
what is normal from what is conventional, two of the most 
important matters to the whole. Atheism makes man ani- 
mal, Polytheism makes him lackey, while Monotheism ex- 
alts mind and society to their highest normal state, and 
gives adequate satisfaction to all to proceed on the safest 
grounds. 

The responsible inquiry secures a responsible means of 
investigation. Of whom would mentality inquire? Moses, 
or his bible? The first is but a man, and the last but his 
book and only his exponent. All but obstinate and opin- 
ionated bigots appreciate Deity's autograph of ideas as his 
sole exponent. How can any of monarchical government, 
except the honorable conservatives, ever recogn.'ze the con- 
spiracy of faith-organizations against popular rights? But 
the organs desire the people to give implicit confidence to 
their gospel. What trust can be put in all the fraternity, 
who divide and compromise the integrity of mind by alien- 



44 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

ating faith from reason, when the union of both bespeaks 
the wisest use and science of mental jurisprudence? 

If the people of monarchies do not understand and exer- 
cise the noblest principles of government, how can they 
presume to appreciate what is religion? 

They all should look to the United States of America, 
and study maturely her wisest lessons for all nations, as 
honorable conviction results from normal education. The 
responsible monotheist association will supersede all faith- 
organizations. 

As Monotheism alone can exist. Atheism and Polythe- 
ism are nullities — nonentities. 

Monotheists, above all, should hold their position of 
triumphant dignity over the licentiousness of faith-organ- 
izations. The American school will be its progressive type, 
and will leave the balance of the world to follow on, with 
a conservative resistance to despotism and anarchy. 

Catholicism, as other forms of polytheism, has propa- 
gated lasting, abiding injuries on society, like all conven- 
tionalism that makes pirates, cannibals, fanatics, murder- 
ers of mankind, while normality renders them monotheist. 

People have banded themselves together for what they 
call religious duties, yet they may be thugs, Chinese fratri- 
cides, or Mormon adulterers. 

The normal excellency of mind-mentality must ever de- 
cide the consistency of existence, self and social preserva- 
tion, on the certain basis of monotheist civilization. Jus- 
tice, that is no flatterer, decides against all foggy fixtures 
for a progressive cujpital. 



The only Reformation that is progressive is Monothe- 
ist. — Most all reforms are predicated on conventional, not 
normal basis, and are that much patchwork, and, as mere 
isolated single measures, will not answer. 



A M E Pv I C A VINDICATED. 45 

Give Christ all that his reasonable admirers claim for 
him, and he was at most only a reformer of Jewism, or the 
Jew Church. Socrates was a reformer of the Athenian 
Church, on the best analysis. Socrates was truly more a 
monotheist than Christ, but both complicated their reform 
by polytheistic absurdities. All the investments of Christ 
or incarnations are like them, ex post factos. But Jewism 
and Mahometanism are forms of Monotheism ! 

What is Monotheism? That which purely recognizes — 
God and his universe, as ruled by principles of cause and 
effect. 

The first recognizes Moses, and the second has Mahom- 
met, as prophets, that act contravening monotheist princi- 
ples; hence all such are libels on Monotheism that recog- 
nizes the terms prophet, holy, divine as profane, as God 
alone is so. All incarnations, apotheoses, and the whole 
type of intermediates, are corruptions of church. 

The American school, in its full nationality, will decide 
all faiths quibbles : necessity, fate, fatality, chance, caus- 
ality, and destiny are all cause and effect operations, that 
cannot ignore antecedent causation, or conscience that is 
normal, and yield the triumph to Monotheism. 

AH faith-organizations will recede as mentality pro- 
gresses, confirmed by the demise of the Patrician snakes of 
Ireland, the Georgian dragon of England, and the Chinese 
chimera. 

When the mighty faculty of Mentality shall assert its 
potency, the royal, ecclesiastical, and military evils will be 
in abeyance to popular liberty and rule. 



Mentality- Faculty. — This is the normal faculty of God- 
mind, God-faculty. As God is altogether God, he is alto- 
gether monotheist. All other is faith speculations with 
conventional bibles, or atheistic metaphysics, both forlorn 



46 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

hopes of venal and mercenary, or delusive chimeras, that 
are nullities that trench on mind^s rights, and the inherent 
universal evolved facts. Mankind have to denounce in 
principles their false position, that gives the dark side. 
Mentality has necessarily to recognize mentality-faculty as 
absokitely essential to the normal rule of the universe as 
primary motor, and to society as its model. As universal 
self-motion that is essentially relational is an absurdity, so 
universal subjects require monotheist principles for first and 
final causes, to adjust the healthy and conservative state 
of proper restraint in all departments. 

Mentality has to realize higher aspirations than faith, 
that renders mind and conscience conventional, and organ- 
izes mankind into contentious, antagonistic, fatal factions, 
out of a monotheist fraternity. 

All faith that is conventional is absolutely devoid of 
principle, and therefore compromises the dignity of mind 
and religion, as the peace, welfare, and prosperity of its 
sectarian advocates. Monotheist institutions are thus the 
absolute conservators of harmonious action, and are ever 
to be most appreciated and revered by all the normal fac- 
ulty of mind. 

All faith is less than a logical conviction, as it is that 
much less than reason, when it dictates to the last to sur- 
render and betray mind. 

All churches that propagate such dogmas are those 
that can accomplish no honorable object to mankind. The 
part'sans are office-seekers of the spoils, instead of leaving 
the elements of office to mature on the worthy monotheist 
institutions. 



All Faith has necessarily its Paternity in the Chart of 
God. — It is absolutely certain that all faith emanates from 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 4*1 

the official divine autograph, else it is necessarily that of 
conventionalism, abnormal and unprincipled. 

As the first has been partially illustrated, it is essential 
to analyze the last. 

The subtlest diplomacy of the world has perpetrated on 
mankind its concentration of power of triple or triune de- 
partments — monarchical, ecclesiastical, and military, that 
represent and vindicate absolutism. In this only the spoils 
party of oligarchy is concerned. The great family of man 
is identified with constitutional liberty, that yields to it 
not only proper adequte protection for life, property, and 
reputation, but all the essentials of majesty, dignity, and 
supremacy of mentality, the normal excellence of mind. It 
is the plenipotentiary protection of his liberty that man 
requires. 

The triune or triple-headed power divests mankind of per- 
forming all in their power for the highest sphere of society. 

This is conspicuously exemplified by the antecedents and 
present position of Asia, that has the prestige of being the 
home for half of the human race. Where is the mighty 
conservative influence of her population, so vast in numbers, 
and her vast riches that have attracted the admiration and 
cupidity of the world? What is the prestige of Asiatic 
power, that gave her faith-type to Europe ? What is the 
state of her civilization, that reflects the value of her vast 
and potent elements ? It is abject prostration of body and 
submission of mind, proclaiming the weakness of the people 
under the malign influence of despotism — the anarchy of 
absolutism, that rules at pleasure its master. What anoma- 
ly is this, that reflects so awfully on mind mankind, the 
dignity of their nature? It is the universal history of 
mind in its pagan, infantile, metaphysical state, circum- 
vented by the acutest subtilty of diplomacy. 

What is then needed to counteract the duplicity of 



48 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

unprincipled conspirators, that abstract the capital of God 
and man for the vilest and most felonious purposes — that 
decoy, deceiye, betray, and assassinate the human family? 
This evil is cosmopolitan. Asia has been famous for her 
dogmas, that have been turned to every advantage against 
her, and rendered fatal to her peace and strength, as well 
as to other parts of the world. 

Her famous faith trickery has been her fatal delusion, 
that has debased her people by the infamous dupery of 
mind, and the overthrow of its independence. Her oligar- 
chy, like that of the world, has fattened on the spoils of 
office, and has ever been reckless for man's good, while he 
was subject to its sensual usurpation and monopoly. 

The abject court flatterers never estimated things for 
what they were worth, but what they were commanded, 
with implicit confidence. 

This is what they had to regard as faith ! What can 
honorable, high-minded, and intellectual American free 
minds think of this dictation? Are they prepared to 
acquiesce in such dogma and doctrine of Asiatic abso- 
lutism and conventionalism? If Americans can digest 
Asiatic faith, they will then have no difficulty of conscience 
to take the balance as incarnations, and bibles or books 
their exponents. 

Is faith an organic act of mind, as reason and conscience ? 
Most certainly, and cannot be separated therefrom; and 
that position decides the whole question as to the integrity 
of mind in all departments — physically, morally, socially, and 
religiously. Integrity of mind, then, takes all things — 
faiths and bibles, or their exponents — for what they are 
worth. If faith be fact revelation, it has no bible of black 
letter in man's hands as its exponent. Any other faith 
is an innate idea — a nonentity. What are all bible ex- 
ponents worth? The rule and nature of evidence con- 



AMERICA VINDICATED* 49 

stitute the supreme right and safeguard of mind. Sow 
can mind trust the bible of any faith that is faithless to 
reason? Only think of any bible being an epitome of 
universal revelations ! This is truly descending from the 
sublime to the ridiculous. 

The clergy who had the Asiatic prestige of being more 
than human, had their bibles as exponents of their dogmas, 
all of the same worthless type. They all could go no far- 
ther than their faiths, which were heresies to religion and 
fatal to man's interests. Their books and faiths were the 
exponents of concentrated power, but the facts, honorable 
and invaluable to the people, were concealed. 

The employment of such means and agents constitute 
faith-metaphysics, that mentality, ever posted up, unquali- 
fiedly abhors and rejects. 

It ever demands the proper honorable introduction of all 
subjects submitted officially to mind, that can never be 
divested of its reason at the expense of its faith, to suit the 
pernicious policy of all absolutism, all the emissaries of the 
triple power. 

All faiths as faiths lay the foundation for misrule, des- 
potism, and anarchy. 

All such faiths that compromise the independence of 
mind by its credulity, are unfit for serfs, peons, slaves, man, 
and have completed the code of evil by paving the way for 
atheism, all the dregs of infidelity. 

Americans must never overlook the intrinsic value of 
race, and all the right exercise and influences of mind 
properly schooled, that repel the unprincipled interested 
votaries and partisans of the triple concentrated power, 
that never can stickle at aught to subserve their abomina- 
ble, execrable purposes. 

Americans who have the siil lime comprehension of this 
portentous evil, are arresting the vicious propensities of 



50 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

the spoils demagogues, as they have given a governmer:'- 
and appreciation of religion that ignore all these fatal 
fallacies. They have rightly estimated all faith-morality 
as interfering with human excellence — that can never trust 
to the man-marks of faith-organizations, when it had all 
the God-marks of his monotheist institutions. 

God has granted religion to the universe, but not for 
the benefit of faith-organizations, that consequently can 
have no faith or bible without the most iniquitous fraud. 

American nationality, ever characterized by intellectual 
candor, resists effectually the exercise of such pretences 
for authority. God has invested free mind with the noblest 
material, the adequate element of conscience, the faithful 
monitor of reason and faith united, that balances while it 
interdicts the transgression of principles, and vitalizes whilst 
it conserves from remorse. All conventional faiths impose 
on the credulity of mind. Faith cannot depend on con- 
ventionalism, as that is profitless ; therefore it must recog- 
nize a certain basis. But there is only one, and that 
universal, that necessarily excludes all conventionalism. 

If its advocates profess its origin from their bible, how 
does mind know that it is a bible? 

If mind have to take the assumption as all is, until proved, 
one single step short of facts stern, principled, and demon- 
strated, it is absolute conventionalism, and is of no authority 
that is normal. 

Faith must comprehend truth, or it is faithless. Th« 
Mosaic bible cannot comprehend truth, as its advocates den;,- 
the universe as the bible, and of course it can only be alto- 
gether conventional. If mind trusts to Mosaic records that 
are necessarily untruthful, then what profits that or any such 
conventional faith ? 

Now, God'S chart is faithful testimony. Why is it ? Who 
knows that the universe is God's chart ? Because that the 



AMERICA YINDICATED. 51 

-result of cause and effect organization is alone evidence of 
its causator, Creator. 

Talk what all bible-mongers choose, no mind can get any 
idea of Deity without the universe. Its monotheist author- 
ity is vindicated by monotheist fidelity; hence all the infi- 
delity that is, is against that monotheist authority — that is 
absolutely certain. 

The infidelity of faith that commits itself, depends on the 
arbitrary faith of conventionalism, as Christian and Ma- 
hometan, that reciprocated the terms of infidel with each 
other during the crusade wars; and however potent their 
motive powers of faith, the justice of the term is and has been 
decided alone by monotheist purity. This position is demon- 
strated conclusively. The consummation of the universe 
has its causation in the causator, the eternal antecedent. 
Any other is a phantasm, vague and ilhisive in design, that 
is unbalanced in the equilibrium of mind, that violates all 
the principles of nature, and has at best only equivocal 
notoriety. 

Analyze all faiths, mind ever sees them in abeyance to 
the awful prejudices of caste, that scowl on each with bitter 
malignity. 

The last is a perfect barrier to progress. All such is the 
lever of perfect and remorseless despotism, that rules man- 
kind by all available resources, subservient to the concen- 
trated essence of triple power. 

What better is Atheism, that has raised a great dust by 
its idea of necessity, the very thing that proves Deity ? 
What, then, is necessity? That which is essentially de- 
signed by the Creator in the universe, that otherwise could 
nob be a universe. Mentality-faculty, that is the whole 
concentration of "divine mind, and all energy pertaining 
thereto, has subordinated necessity in universal nature, that 
is production, God's agent on established necessary princi- 



52 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

pies. Whilst nature is constitutional, complex organiza- 
tion, that carries out organically the design of the whole, 
there is no proof at all of original energy. 

Mentality, that is the normal faculty of mind, must con- 
sider it as a phantasm to have creation and procreation, 
production and reproduction confused and undefined in one 
and the same being. No order could survive such condition. 

Then God's element is distinct, and the idea of him as 
God-model arises altogether from the universe as his chart. 

All Americans should affirm what the facts justify. Their 
national character is pre-eminently fixed, and a part is to 
ap})reciate human nature individually, nationally, and uni- 
versally. 

Henceforth, as Atheism has no existence, its necessity 
cannot be plead in excuse as morality, for any atheistical 
chimera now exploded. No such plea can justify atheistic 
codes of morals. 

Necessity cannot be a general plea as excuse for crimes, 
us it pertains to universal causes and effects, that are regu- 
lated by conservative principles that ignore infidelity. 

Mentality ever recurs to monotheist institutions, that shed 
a lustre on the bright side of creation, and silence the mo- 
nomania of infidelity. 

To whom is the argument of religion addressed ? To 
kings, priests, military partisans, aiders and abettors? They 
are not the peers of mind, much less of mentality the uni- 
versal beneficiary, that can never confide in the devices the 
only capital of faith-organizations, while it is united in holy 
union to the functions of monotheist institutions. 

What system of morals can suit all, but that of a mon- 
otheist God? What rules the moral code? Can that of 
Christianity, Jewism, or Mormonism ? As none can rule 
the other, who, then, is the moralist? Faith, that was 
manufactured to express order, the heresy to religion, the 



AMERICA VINDICATf]D. 53 

perpetiiai bankrupt and ex post facto, that has no vitality 
of good, cannot be at all for a moment adequate to the 
trust of mind the only beneficiary, which it had most deeply 
injured and beguiled. 

The wisdom of mind ever looks to restrictions and safe- 
guards, and must do so especially in all the operations of 
faith that goes alone for her own benefit, not that of the 
people who are to minister to it. Who can confide in the 
wiles of self-interest, the delusions of fanaticism and super- 
'"titious metaphysics? Not the free minds of freemen. 



Conventional Faith is the most dangerous of all Tempta- 
tions, the most despotic of all Absohitisms, and levies black 
mail en all its subjects. — ^Mind cannot conceive of a more 
perilous temptation, a more absolute despot, that produces 
more anarchy, than faith that organizes the subtlest con- 
centration of diplomacy and power in the name of Religion 
and Government. This faith is the quintessence of original 
sin. Its advocates claim it for public benefit, though 
fraught with the worst evils. 

What, then, are the adequate restraints to be put on 
its advocates and partisans, the greatest wrong-doers, 
who swindle and murder by millions, the most vicious ene- 
mies of all constitutional liberty? Faith that aids these, 
but rules the injured, is not worthy a moment of free mind, 
when it betrays it. Such faith is never becoming to man- 
kind, who, if wise, will ever look to monotheist institutions, 
that universally diffuse and dispense the choicest blessings 
of existence. 

What, then, is the proper exercise of Morality? The 
exercise of the best use of Mentality, the wisest discretion 
of mind properly qualified, that can never trust to profes- 
sions of any type, nor their books, which are only their 
exponents. 

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64 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

But the theologians, the preachers, and priests are the 
corps to know all about this matter exclusively. Do they 
know the essential difference between religion and faith ? 
If they cannot without mentality, that ignores them, then 
are they incompetent to meet the proper question of truth. 

Who would rely on man's testimony in a matter in which 
principles alone are competent, and that rule out all others 
— man's and his bibles that can only be his exponents, and 
that are absolutely false ? Then all faiths are swindles on 
the public, on whom they levy black mail. 

Does the conscience have anything to do with them? 
Does reason? No! They are put in the background, and 
eclipsed by the dictation of faith that emasculates and stul- 
tifies mind! What system of morals is that, that sacrifices 
the fortress of mind to its worst enemy? Who would go 
for operations of that kind ? No free minds. 



All Revelations are immediately Universal Realities. — Of 
what element can mankind take recognition except through 
the universe, and by what other means than through men- 
tality, the progressive position of mind? 

What has taught mind that extremes of heat and cold, 
as burns and frost-bite, assail the human organization pro- 
portionately to exposure. The reality reveals the fact 
alone. 

How came the genius of Columbus to attain the discov- 
ery of America ? By analogy, which is the element of logic 
from effect to cause, of which mentality only can take 
cognizance. 

All faith that rests on ''the substance of things hoped 
for," is nothiug but a stupid opinion of pagan sophism, to 
be cancelled for want of facts, never to be realized by 
mentality. 

The universe goes on, independent of all faith's nonsense. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 55 

Why should not the Mosaic revelation be the one, when its 
head proved superior to the Egyptian jugglers? That only 
proves him the best juggler of the two. When a man has 
deceived you once, that is his fault; the fault of the second 
time is yours. 

The ancients made chattels of mind, faith, and people. 
Surely the moderns, with all their lights of progress, will 
never renew this fault of pagan mind that is ever prolific 
in pagan crime, as they would be incomparably more to 
blame with the advantage in their power. Government or 
religion is too holy for pagan corruption, at this age. 

Whoever desires Jewism, and affiliations destitute of gov- 
ernment, can take Moses and his bible ; but the wise person 
that seeks free mind has before him or her the whole chart 
that makes it. 

Moses made pagan serfs, and can only suit such, if any, 
certainly not monotheist free minds. He not only basely 
duped his own fellow-citizens, but made them pay therefor, 
a curse to the world, and rendering himself odious for the 
age of Mentality. 



Misplaced Confidence is Ridiculous. — The school of priests 
has enlisted an extraordinary indulgence, that despotism of 
kings could procure. Though it aroused the sympathy of 
the people, and had all impartial trials, still it is a failure. 
Why is this so? It never once possessed the elements of 
Religion. The facts must bring all to first principles of 
truth, that declares that great injustice, violence, and injury 
have been done to mind by all such faith-school. 

The advocates are clamorous for their particular one 
against all others. Of course they are, as all monopolists 
of usurpers. So are the Mormons in Utah, the Mahom- 
medans in Turkey, the Bhudists of Asia. But what does 
all that signify? Mankind has to look at the justice of the 



56 A M E R I C A V I N D I C A T E L> . 

claims. What confidence can be put in a false one ? What 
claim of faith is otherwise ? It gives no remuneration than 
for temporal policies, political diplomacy. 

What confidence, then, can the world put in the clergy? 
All the claims of faith which they profess have been can- 
celled by popular and mental rights. The adequate pro- 
tection that such require is not in faith In the absence 
of all proof, w^hat can it offer? It is ridiculous for the 
shadow to affect the substance of the reality. What can 
shadows reveal, when the reality has already demonstrated 
the essential facts? 

From what source does Mentality procure its immediate 
Revelation ? From the Universe. There is no exception 
to this uniform source. Its experience alone confirms or 
rejects all subjects without exception, whether by observa- 
tion, books, or conversation. From these only is realized 
Revelation, that has recognition of universal elements. 



The Government of Religion. — This can recognize no 
common, that is unprincipled law, incompatible with nor- 
mal principles. All precedents rest on this position. This 
recognizes the third as the first estate, as antecedent — the 
people — wiio had been disregarded by their usurpers, not 
even their peers or constituency. All such was a usurpa- 
tion in collusions with priestly monopoly, disorganizing to 
vsociety. The world has had time for reflection thousands 
of years, by science and experience, and above all, by 
analogy, which is uniform in the universe, and that is the 
consistent logic through cause and effect. In the want of 
any demonstration of faith practicable on this only basis 
before mentality, it devolves on its annihilated advocates 
to espouse the monotheist institutions of Deity. Imperial 
priests will cling to usurped powers, and seek to exhume 



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AMERICA VINDICATED. 57 

the remains of ancient faiths, but their wisdom lies in the 
progress of monotheist conservation. 

Impartial justice cannot be done by prejudiced minds 
prejudging on partial views, but mentality can take the 
exalted comprehension prescribed by infinity. Perfidious 
faith cannot furnish peace of mind that mentality, exalted 
by religion, insures. The first makes this world one of 
sordid, mercenary speculation. 

But its advocates affect that they wish not to discuss 
faith. Then it has elements that require repudiation. 
Truth or religion does not lose by rational discussion, but 
gains that much. 

Is the world to be divested of its rights in any depart- 
ment, because faith presides over it? In what can such 
fraud-capital be available? What right could determine 
in faith-title? There can be no alienation by faith, as 
all the rights of the universe are inalienable, and conse- 
quently faith must be annihilated. 



The Adequate Antecedents. — How came it that faith's ad- 
vocates overlooked the adequate antecedents of monotheist 
institutions? The world appreciates the imperfect service 
of faith that is totally inadequate to all rightful functions. 
The most conscientious that seek faith, are in faithful pur- 
suit of religion. 

The main point is then religion, not faith. These two 
have no identity, that is certain. They are very distinct 
types. 

Faith is accompanied with serfdom* of mind, while reli- 
gion has the glorious sublimity of mentality. Faith, through 
its organs, wars on these, heaping injury upon perfidious 
ingratitude with mischievous nonsense. 

It has set back civilization for many centuries, having a 
pretext for charter irremediable to its votaries, as it is a 



58 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

palpable fraud on God^s rights, a libel on the integrity of 
his perfection. Religion rests on facts, not on sophisticated 
vagaries of faithites. Mind can only appeal to the sacred 
authority of unimpeachable facts. 

What other can be the infallible rule of right? The 
bible ? That is the rule of Jewism, its priests and people. 
•What endorses the infallible rule of right? Normal 
monotheist principles. Whose is the verdict? The con- 
struction of all books is through the mentality of mind, 
the power that enforces this infallible rule. Can the sword ? 
That is a failure. 

What confirms this rule? The bible, as God^s word. 
What bible and what God ? The God of the universe, 
which alone is his document, subscribed to by his auto- 
graph. Mentality is the only qualified and competent 
functionary to rectify all errors by its verdict, in its econo- 
my for civil, social, moral, and religious elements. 



The Fraudulent Tenures of Faith- Organizations, — Are 
not such capable of subsidizing all available corruption 
subsidiary to its perfidious resnlting interests ? Are any 
Orient or occidental, Arctic or Antarctic, less amenable to 
the charge of fraud, because of difference of type ? They 
are all equally guilty, and of guilty paternity. 

They are all allied to monarchical, feudal, and aristo- 
cratic subsidies, to carry out their perfidious tenures. Noth- 
ing short of free minds and free governments can ever 
dissolve this collusive association, that ramifies throughout 
and corrupts society, and then mentality has to solve this 
mighty problem, the pure practicable free agent of men- 
tality-faculty. Such faith-organizations have attempted to 
silence its modest advance, by their brute force paganizing 
the age. Such never can be respected a moment by the 
age of the monotheist. Europe, invaded by the brute force 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 59 

of Christian regimes, would have had its Christian age, had 
not the despotism a Christian failure. 

Its infallible head, the tiaraed centre, is descending to a 
degraded caste of exploded nonsense. Its corrupt agen- 
cies are waning to unenviable disgrace with God and man, 
and the day is coming when no mind will be so pagan 
to do it reverence. The poisonous qualities of corruption 
are entombing this and all other faith-organizations. 

All the deified incarnations of polytheism are the patch- 
work of nonsense perpetrated by pagan mind. Do not 
touch atheism any way to annihilate it — it is dangerous, 
say the polytheists. You must not, then, establish your 
rights nor destroy your errors. What, then, is polytheism 
in its best strength worth? The people are scared, de- 
frauded out of their rights, by an irresponsible set of pirates, 
the most perfidious of all on land and water. 



The Vested Rights of Mentality are Absolute, by its neces- 
sary Inalienable Responsibility. — There is no other faculty 
but mentality, or the soul, that can scan the universe and 
its eternal, absolute existence author. Having demon- 
strated this, it enables and entitles it to inquire into those 
vested rights. 

As all others claiming them can present no credentials 
of responsibility, they are officially, conclusively, disqualified 
in its functions. What is the energy of mind ? For the 
sublimest purpose of universal welfare. This mighty ques- 
tion was handled by the profoundest wisdom, the most 
expansive liberality, that require the grateful adoration of 
the noblest statesmen. God could not repudiate his own 
sublimest monotheist glory and beatitude. Mentality and 
immortality purposes dignify the eternal Creator less than 
such-wise ignores his qualities. What are they otherwise to 
mentality? Conclusively nugatory to that faculty that 



60 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

ardently desires to immortalize itself. Deity could not 
invalidate his own glorious mentality-faculty. Mentality 
will cause mind to secure those vested rights, and repu- 
diate self-stultification and imbecility. To produce con- 
genial acquisitions, it must premise congenial actions, to 
reach congenial orders of existence. To reach the maturity 
of immortality, its immaturity must be placed beyond 
the contingencies of immature decadence. The vibra- 
tions of mentality may respond harmoniously to that of 
mentality-faculty, by all congenial vibrations of sublime 
actions. 

His principles exalt mentality that avails itself aright of 
them. What astonishing powers mentality exhibits in its 
progress of various discoveries, as in astronomy. God is 
not arbitrary in its organization, creating it competent to 
reach the sublimity of his creation, and then excluding it. 



The Sense of Right. — This illustrious function of mental- 
ity presents to Humanity its most important question, not 
of Faith, but of Fact. This is for the sublimest considera- 
tion of all honest and wise people, who have to act accord- 
ingly. 

Who has it supremely? The clique of kings, priests, and 
favorites? Where is their most exalted proof ? In practi- 
cal love of humanity and religion, that pre-eminently sus- 
tains the first. 

This trinity professes its particular faith, that imbues 
its hands in the blood of people assassinated by its inquisi- 
tion. 

The sense of right pre-eminently belongs to Humanity; 
but this combination of triune power reserves faith to its 
government, that Humanity, the only official potency, is 
not to touch officially, but from whom it is withheld by 
force, dark and deeply concealed. 



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AMERICA V I N D I C A T E i) . 61 

Its constituent elements present always an embittered 
partisan!?hip, the agitation of what could necessarily be set- 
tled by organic principles. The fact is, the monarchical ec- 
clesiastical clique of collusive kings, priests, and body-guard 
seek to arrest from their master, the people, the constitu- 
tion orthodoxy, and appropriate it to their mercenary spec- 
ulation. Theirs is just such a system as will take the ad- 
ministration of world-business out of the hands of Deity, 
and put it into the hands of an unprincipled clique. Pop- 
ular reaction, the power of mentality, that truly reflects 
the will of the mentality-faculty, will defeat the whole 
conspiracy. 

If a proper system of morale be not instituted by society, 
it suffers depredations proportionately to the inefficiency of 
that system. 

Society must protect itself. What is its adequate pro- 
tection? The polity of kings, priests, and affiliations? 
That is the most deadly scheme against it. Social ade- 
quate protection must have its system. What is that? 
That of the universe — the monotheist organization. The 
normal principles of a perfect Creator in the keeping of his 
vindicating agents, cause and effect. Can they be, then, 
an ex post fado^ in the keeping of paper bibles and their 
priest expounders ? What signal mutual benefit has faith 
conferred on the universe ? Its paper records are only of 
this earth, and could not exist before religion, the fact- 
functionary of the universe. 

No ex post facto has reality or entity in the universe. 
The resources of the universe are carrying out all its 
practical usefulness. Where, then, exists the necessity for 
more ? They furnish all the functional facilities of Mental- 
ity; monotheist institutions commenced and must complete 
the whole. Was there ever a more bare-faced impudence 
in the sight of God, committed by the collusion of kings,^ 
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62 A >[ E R I C A V INDICATED. 

priests, and their guard, to usur}) them by their stupid pre- 
texts of polytheism ? Mouotheist institutions Ijave been 
of the universe since the birth of its organization and time 
— ready whenever mentality is matured for their best re- 
ception. To what committee but the only one, that of the 
people, can they be intrusted ? All others are not their 
peers, and have no commission in the premises, as priests 
labor for their particular faiths, variant from man's, whose 
acts must uphold all educational institutions in strict con- 
formity thereto. 

In conclusion, what, then, is all particular faith in the 
hands of men ? The means of varied power — reactive to 
render them unprincipled, and their affiliations corrupt — 
the veriest injury to both parties — employing or receiving. 

How conies it that any American constitutional repre- 
sentative republican adheres to the mental slavery of faith- 
organizatioiis ? Monarchists planted them in alliance with 
their government in these colonies, and it is one of the last 
errors that mind can discard. 



A Free Mind is independent of Conventional jPazVA.— What 
free mind is so enslaved to dictatorial, bigot, and priest- 
craft, that it cannot investigate for itself ? 

The w^hole world has been harassed by the faiths of con- 
ventionalisms, the necessity delusion of Infidelity, and the 
malign influences over pagan mind. The result has been 
that freemen, that could analyze liberty, have not dared as- 
sert the most glorious of all independence, that of free mind. 

In 1776, monarchs learned for their first great lesson in 
the modern history of their annals, to respect the audible 
voice of the people in Government. Mankind has learned 
from this, the first time, that Church and State were in- 
compatible, and that State had to depend upon its own mer- 
its, which it has done to the glory of Mentality. Ameri- 



A M E R I C A y I N I) I C A T E D . 63 

cans have to respect the universal voice of free mmds in 
religion, and discard forever the abuse of conventional faith, 
and adopt, with a glorious memento to Deity, that of nor- 
mal principles. This is only a question of time in different 
countries. In this country the elements are fast maturing. 
Conventional faith is not only odious, but its whole school 
and type are justly obnoxious to the gravest accusations 
of foulest deeds. It has usurped the name of religion, to 
practice most perfidious treachery to God and man. 

It has defrauded the people of every vested right by all 
manner of faith-policies, in collusion with beings and spoils- 
men, for its own aggrandizement and ignominy. 

It hath ignobly imposed its own codes on the world for 
those of Deity; its own priests, self-denominated saints, who 
have palmed off on pagan mind miserable pagan idolatry 
and criminality of mind, averting it from its normal princi- 
ples of the monotheist God. 



The Monotheist Creation. — Monotheist institutions were 
created by Deity for his munificence to the universe, and 
they supersede any necessity of faiths of conventionalism, 
that mar reason, morals, religion, the best interests of soci- 
ety, disregarding the noblest principles of God and man. 

Every man has his Deity, a project of faith of his own, 
without the universal chart, that is then essentially and 
absolutely necessary for a standard to declare its universal 
model. 

Its normal revelations enlighten mind in its mighty 
progress to mentality from time to eternity, and attest the 
mighty purpose of the monotheist creation. The universe 
is the organization of elements. All elementary existence 
preceded the composite. Mind developes to mentality, that 
expands as an immortal soul. 

Responsible free mind gives entire, unqualified sanction 



64 A M E R I C A y I N 1) 1 C A T K D . 

and approval to the moiiotheist creation. Its amendments 
to this trnst are and must be by rnles and regulations of itself 
on this standard, not to proffer any hypothesis of conserva- 
tion of the trnst ])y patent priest-means, as that is unofficial 
and extra-functional, impracticable, ex jpost fado and pagan. 

Its chart bestows vested rights that insure the conserva- 
tion of both sides, and that is all that an honest mentality 
can desire^ This preserves the basis of popular rights, but 
repels all others as fictitious and perfidious. 

The right action is a necessary consequence. Mentality 
and its results distinguish the elevation of States and the 
beneficial science, wherefore demonstration of the monotheist 
God cannot be ignored by its free minds, that will necessa- 
rily be true to this God-given trust, and exclude all faith- 
factions and organizations, all fleecing of the people by a 
train-band of ignoble conspirators. 



The Right of Mind overrides all Bibles. — On the asser- 
tion of this right of free minds, the fanatical cry is raised 
against Infidelity. Who say that ? The satellites of the 
reigning faction of the social circle. The Christian faction 
assumes to dictate that its Christianity is the one to rule. 
Of course the faith-organization will ever adhere to this 
dogma, if mentality permit it. But all factions, whether 
of political or church faith, are nuisances, hurtful, odious 
mischiefs, that make mind pagan, peon. What is any faith 
worth, destitute of principles — religion. Are not all faith- 
organizations on this basis ? No faith can be religion, be- 
cause its organs affect it. They affect mosaic faith-bibles. 
Is religion mosaic ? Xo. Is principle mosaic ? Xo. Was 
God mosaic? Xo. 

The right of mind is, not to ignore or compromise con- 
science, but to use all its faculties, intellectual and political, 
to which it is entitled. 




AMERICA VINDICATED. 65 

What free mind, endowed with all the faculty and quali- 
ties of mentality, wishes to be the peon of faith-factions of 
any kind. Christian, Jew, Mahometan, Mormon, or any 
other pagan? 

Mentality can see the evil effects of those more overt as 
political. Can the more covert be less perfidious, because 
disguised by names of faith ? Is crime less perfidious, dis- 
guised in any form ? The redeeming virtue, the balance of 
power in society, renders it obligatory to have a correct po- 
sition. Normal principles alone put society above the vi- 
cissitudes of contingency that ever characterizes faith-fac- 
tions, the world's disturbing elements. Principles of the 
monotheist God make all of society duly responsible. 

How is it possible, otherwise, to secure individual, na- 
tional responsibility to all the noblest duties that ever per- 
tain to international society and comity — pacification? 



Are not Bigots exclusively Polytheistic or Atheistic? — The 
polytheist affirms that he wishes to exclude atheism, but 
how is he to do it with polytheistic nonentities and nonsense- 
innate ideas, that mind has no conception of, no vested 
rights in ? He might better undertake with a tub to sail 
the oceans, as to have less than a monotheist God, to suc- 
ceed. They pretend that Moses gave the world the benefit 
of his revelations. What kind were they? Such as make 
Jewism the despotism of barbarian, ignorant, and disgusting 
mercenary Jew-priests and government. Ask of him for 
most valuable revelations of science, commerce, navigation, 
government, all the essentials of man's and national happi- 
ness, and the answer is duly reflected from his fugitive people. 

They were and have been as miserable as any on earth, 
as ignorant and stupid, the very personification of bigotry; 
hence it is an idle mockery to uphold such pagan nonsense 
in the face of Monotheist Institutions. 
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66 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

Had these last not existed with creation, the fanatical 
apologists might advance with a little better grace. But 
what could mind expect from Asia, ruined by dissolute 
regimes of kings, priests, and courtiers, whose orient exag- 
geration, extravagance of ideas over the reality, is and has 
been a standing reproach ? 

There is no compensating, redeeming quality, as all their 
types are tainted with false designs on man, at the expense 
of godly virtues. Even their pretended prophecies are 
odious vices, making their wish father to the thought. 

All their mysteries are convenient pleas of stupid igno- 
rance, a stolid confession of what they nor their bible-priest 
makers could not manage intellectually, or honorably truth- 
fully confess. 



Public Sentiment. — ^This is an awful despot, unless en- 
lightened by principles that indicate the circumstances of 
the universe. But the innate ideas of the ancients were 
placed supreme to the universe by their dark ages. 

What cared Plato, Aristotle, or Seneca for universal 
facts, if their theory of innate ideas had the ascendency? 
This made ancient public opinion a tyranny difficult to es- 
cape from. Even to this day the barbarian relic pervades 
society. Moses is thus considered by some almost a univer- 
sal legislator, while the most populous ancient nations, as 
China, do not know him. Moses and such recurred to innate 
ideas for a God — and his system, to impose on the public. 

All polytheists have innate ideas; hence their faith-or- 
ganizations that have outlived their time. The American 
patriotism that will sustain this Union will refuse all this 
at the proper time. The Americans are too intelligent to 
be betrayed by such coalition. "When m:nd has a proper 
tribunal of mind, then the miserable theories will die. 
What can constitute a state of 'infidel mind in or against 



AMERICA V 1 X D I C A T E D . 67 

public seutimeut, but fashionable conventionality? The true 
infidel mind is pagan, whether polytheistic or atheistic. 
When it is said that Egypt was infidel, it can be as truly 
said that Christianity is infidel. 

The incongruities and outrages of faith-organizations are 
obnoxious when we observe the Mormons, but those of the 
reigning social dynasty are more exempt. Why is this ? 
They all have sacrilegiously assumed the name of religion 
and God. 

Every artifice and sacrifice to principle of mind^s vested 
rights have been the offerings to the empire of priest-craft 
allied with king-craft, and upheld by martial butchery. 
This despotism has stalked over the earth like a monster 
of idolatry, at the expense of the people, in all their dearest 
relations of life. 



Mentality. — The universe embraces two great depart- 
ments, mentality and matter. Mentality appropriates reve- 
lation as the universal faculty for its normal education, 
that causes mind to emerge from its pagan ignorance and 
error, to civilize and liberalize public sentiment to universal 
facts. By this, men have been set to thinking aright, for 
utility and general benefit. 

While Plato and the ancient dreamers considered phil- 
osophy as of innate ideas, practical sense recurs to the 
facts of the universe. Theological metaphysics and politics 
led the way for inconsistent and oppressive theories, that 
tyrants subsidized for groveling and sinister designs. Of 
this character are all faith-organizations, that are 'prima 
facie evidence that you cannot trust them. 

We see how it was that the pretext of oracles, mysteries, 
miracles, and prophecies came to get such a strong hold on 
the mind of man. 

There were none enlightened enough to interpret univer- 



68 AMERICA VIXDf GATED. 

sal revelations, and these were the tunes for tyrants, impo- 
sition, and superstition. Theories of such as the children 
of innate ideas excluded the highest evidences of universal 
facts. It was easy for the dictation of authority — when 
public sentiment was analogous. The officials of all gov- 
ernments were associates and participators in the evil, and 
enjoyed the benefits. Judges of England were a part of 
the church regime representing the common law, identified 
at last by their usurpation in the ecclesiastical code. All 
branches of the government were components of the politi- 
cal machinery. The people were sold. What was to afford 
them full faith to their just demands ? The people had to 
take all into their own hands. The autocratical organiza- 
tions might be entitled, by their aiders, nominal excellency, 
but all such belong to an insidious policy. Then practical 
sense of mentality reverses all such as high treason against 
mind. 



The Chart of God and his Autograph are good enough 
for Mentality. — Independent, mind does not want or need 
any bible of the self-righteous priests, as it cannot do itself 
justice by any such. 

Their faith-organizations and constitutional republican- 
ism are utterly inconsistent. 

American practical common sense perceives that books, 
as bibles or gospels, are perfect nonsense if unsustained by 
monotheist facts. All such are the lowest organs of cor- 
ruption, prolific in egregious wrongs to mind and society. 
Americans have proved themselves capable of self and 
national government, for the best part of a century, and 
have elevated their noblest liberal institutions, not only inde- 
pendent of all faith-organizations, their bibles of Jewism and 
affiliations, but despite of all such and all their organs. 
The panorama of the universe in all its departments, physi- 



AMERICA V I N D 1 C A T E D. 69 

cal, mental, social, moral, and religious, reveals universal 
harmony of action only by normal principles, recognized by 
the sublimest experience of nientality. This revelation is 
its text-book. Any other contracts the functional capital 
of mind. As the American man is pre-eminently entitled 
to all the sublimest benefits of self-government, his wisest 
use of mentality excludes all faith-organizations as Jewism 
and affiliations, and espouses, as his loveliest bride, the most 
exalted monotheist institutions. These declare him supreme 
to mental peonage, that disgraces all governments, whether 
monarchical or even mis-called republicanism, living in 
adulterous connection with any the bantlings of faith- 
organizations. 



The World has to decide between Monotheist Institutions 
and Organizations of Faith. — The sooner the better, foi 
all mankind. This decision is identified with that between 
constitutional representative government that sustains the 
first, and monarchical regime that is allied with the last. 

As mind's functions cannot be neutralized or annihilated 
by the pretexts of demagogues, whether priests or overt 
politicians, it has necessarily to embrace the whole circle 
of monotheist institutions. Americans have fixed the fact 
of their individual and national, self and religious govern- 
ment. Before their practical sense, faith-organizations can- 
not be trusted, as they detract from the integrity of mono- 
theist institutions that are identified with religious decency. 

The good of the whole race requires the least that should 
be done — absolute separation of Church and State on the 
whole world. 

America has given the illustrious example. She needs 
no demagogueism, at the expense of constitutional union ; 
no thousands of clergy to dictate to her senate with perni- 
cious effrontery ; no faith but reli^j;ious nationality. 



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A ^I E R I C A VINDICATED. 



Let Americanization of patriotism consecrate all consti- 
tutional perpetuity, despite of the echoes of visionary 
speculatists. 

Let American logic, founded on common sense, be heard, 
when it asserts in the name of God and religion; let man- 
kind be sure of their bible before they irrevocably submit 
their minds to it. Will any other than the mighty one of 
Deity save from the poignant feelings of remorse, the 
doubtful morale of faith-organizations, the degradation of 
savage cannibalism, the fiendish conspiracies of kings, 
priests, and serfs ? 



The American Code of Mentality. — Hitherto priestly com- 
pulsion was forced on mind that had no choice in the acts 
of collusion between kings and bigots. But mentality, with 
the unanimous consent of enlightened mind, affirms that the 
universe declares all such vacated, all their functions null, 
void, and of no effect in the premises. The universe, God's 
autograph record, pays no attention to, whilst it gives no 
record of, any such. The American code rightly decides 
that collusive kings and priests could only ratify their par- 
ticular bible by stultifying themselves and serfs, but no 
others. They had no other constituents, but became self- 
appointed agents of collusion! Certainly not by American 
constituency. One hemisphere should learn wisdom from 
the otlier as its noblest prize, but should never be arrayed 
with the antagonism of faith, or intimidated by treacherous 
bigots from fair investigation. 

Has a competent board or committee of the world's con- 
stituency — competent practical men — ever decided this 
question ? or, was it not a packed guard of serfs, acting in 
collusion with the Emperor Constantine and his priests ? 
Will the world-mentality stand this audacious fraud palmed 
on mind? Was there ever justice done to the consultation 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 71 

of Mentality, that had the real interest in this vital question, 
by this iniquitous diplomacy? 

Let not this game be palmed on the world any longer. 
Why is this apathy of the people, the principals yielding to 
priests, their dependants ? Whose duty is it but that of 
the principals, the people, to annul the whole ? How is it 
that the people, who are supreme in this matter, have not 
put the presumptuous priests in their subordinate sphere ? 

The great family of humanity have the paramount rights 
over all collusive beings and priests who are not their peers. 
What gave these imbeciles pretext to inveigh against mono- 
theist institutions ? God ? He is their author. Man ? He 
is their creature and beneficiary. 



Whose is the Responsible Permanent Committee ? — That of 
the people, to whom kings and priests are not peers. None 
but the mentality of freemen can elicit and perfect the right 
elaboration to precise decision. People endowed with the 
freedom of self and national government, that have no peers 
on earth, are alone competent to recognize tlieir functional 
reference. 

This is the select committee of mentality. Any other is 
irresponsible, and utterly incompetent in talents or integrity 
to meet such a sublime popular question with fair and hon- 
orable investigation. It was premature in Kiceau Coun- 
cils, inadequate as they were, to do justice to any such. 
All such were bad associations, conspiring against the no- 
blest liberty of conscience. 

What beings shall prevent any from having all they are 
entitled to? Shall the collusion of unprincipled monarchs, 
kings, or emperors and priests, prevent the humblest ? Then 
why should these demagogues ignore the world's monotheist 
institutions ? 

Can priests certify to their pretexts, totally unjustifiable, 



72 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

when they, as culprits, owe the penalty therefor? How can 
confidence ever be reposed in culprits who violate normal 
principles ? The antecedents of the universe dispensed with 
all polytheistic patent-bibles, faiths, and priests, while its 
own monotheist institutions were indispensable. To whom, 
then, shall the adequate investigation be committed ? Surely 
not to culprits, who are incompetent, as their own prejudged, 
prejudiced position proves. They have forestalled, by the 
monopoly of kingly usurpation. The world has overlooked 
the only question: Was the Nicean Council decision a human 
adoption ? Its various errors prove it a very weak mortal. 
Then it is subject to repeal and impeachment, as erroneously 
predicated. This is still more untenable by the one-man 
power of Constantine, of morals debased by perjury and 
popular murder for faith, by the sword. Is this man to 
bind freemen, who are the only God-appointed committee 
duly competent to act? Ko others than the people have 
legitimate functions or responsibility. Which alone can 
decide constitutional law? Mentality. That closes the con- 
troversv. 



The Institations of Deity, the Monotheist Age. — Ameri- 
cans have the most high-minded and noble position of all 
nations, to enact all the requisitions of religion, from the 
light and liberty of conscience, the virtues of refined edu- 
cation, the refinements of civilization, to the exaltation of 
mentality. 

They can come at once to the divine issue, and impart as 
receive the greatest blessings of this monotheist age, the 
greatest triumph for the whole great human family. 

Enlightened freemen can best decide for the best promo- 
tion of the prosperity of all, inasmuch as monotheist insti- 
tutions embrace constitutional representative government, 
the purest of all; while faith-organizations, impure diver- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 73 

gences therefrom, are only devised for the benefit of their 
organs — monarchists — and their partisan corruptionists. 
This is the reason that the last cannot help to promote the 
happiness of the people. 

Then the people must and will, when wise, learn to act 
as well as think for themselves in all things, and not leave 
any part to cliques of false men, irresponsible and unprinci- 
pled, whose faith, tested through promises, is false to man. 
Neither kings nor priests are trustworthy. 

This is not the triumph of nations over each other, but 
the vital question, how shall all best triumph ? The Ameri- 
can nation holds most clearly the highest evidence of having 
the elements of the greatest national favor of the world, 
ancient or modern. Its recognition will be, that mentality 
is the official organ of religion, while priests are official 
organs, not of religion that they cannot represent, but of 
their faith-organization. 

All the rights that priests use are only under the official 
acts of mind; if controverting its legitimate rational func- 
tions, then they are traitors thereto. 



What shall Mentality Sacrifice its Religion fori- — For 
any faith-organization of priests or paper bibles? The 
morals of the world have been sacrificed to such. But can 
the moderns do it, having so much of mind^s light before 
them, and not be worse than the ancient pagans, whose 
means of knowing facts and adopting them were so limited? 

The world now has statesmen that are monotheists, that 
ca.n prevent atheists and polytheists from getting the blind 
side of the people. Wise legislation has a conservative 
progress to restraints of force, and obviates partisan collis- 
ions. What greater moralist is there than the facts of 
truth, that supersede individualities? This advances above 
all pagan policies about trusting to man because he is en- 



74 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

dowed with the livery of cliques — the church — however 
unprincipled he has acted to enact the hypocrite. No 
matter from what school or church, you will only act 
rightly by acting strictly on business principles, that treat 
all bibles and men on merits and demerits. 

Mentality can take no words of either, but tries them 
alone by the adequate proofs of merit. On this conserva- 
tive system castes or cliques cannot stealthily circumvent 
the rights of their fellow-citizens by organizations of faith, 
dictating legalized murders and the most deadly assassina- 
tions, destroying life for their petty pretexts. Why should 
the world-agitation be kept up by its thousand faith-organi- 
zations and its identified impure governments from ancient 
miscalled Republics, even those of Mexico, Central and 
South America ? Mind must look through its mentality at 
the secret of corrupt governments. Even in this Union, 
most illustrious, the dregs of an adulterous regal faith are 
left for the people to utterly discard. 

The colonization of this country was in part under the 
despotism of faith-organizations — all future seed for evil 
anywhere. They derange the equitable balance of society. 

The South American Republics, as the ancient so called, 
united to faith-organizations, are that much behind consti- 
tutional representative government. They have the dis- 
cordant elements in place of the best means to harmonize 
the conflicting interests. They are that much deprived of 
the noblest achievements of mentality. 

An enlightened freeman should never permit any contin- 
gency invading his government or its religion. Do the 
managers, Popes, or Czars proffer him such? He should 
ever abide by normal principles, that manage the managers. 

Do any such expect to deceive mentality by pretexts ? 
They are all too transparent for this philosophical state of 
mind. Minds possessing rights exclude all ex post fados 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 75 

of doubtful morale, all such as political intrigues. Ameri- 
cans will see that the only true system of religious belief is 
that of the Creator to humanity. 

All the faith that can be exercised is that of good faith. 
The right of mind is that springing from existence and nor- 
mal principles. Ex fost facto doctrines cannot be true; also 
they present no equivalent to this best age of progress. 
They are corruptions of government, that control the press, 
schools, every avenue to mind. This model Republic is 
bound to respect the model gifts of De'ty, that have prece- 
dence over all such faith, as it prejudices mind^s rights. Its 
sacred vow for perpetuity of this Union repels all sectional 
faith, schools, much more education, all position of mind, 
whether of faith or poHtical organization j that will render 
it pauper or criminal. 



2'he Lights of the Monotheist Age. — Bigots will not receive 
light — will not read both sides of the subject, from peonage 
of mind. The monotheist rejects all theirs only after inves- 
tigation on honorable analysis, and thus maturely decides 
against pagan minds. Bigots are afraid to see light, that 
expels their dark faith-organizations and spoils. To what 
a miserable pass have their serfs come! An ignorant person 
has no specific power to decide rightly in matters of what 
is called faith, but on the best analysis of his mentality. If 
he intrust the decision not to his God, but creatures inter- 
ested in faith-organizations, then he sacrifices the most val- 
uable endowments of conscience. These organizations are 
all partisan, from sensual iMormonism to the most refined 
pagan institutions of Constantine and his cliques. Has 
every inquirer ever ascertained the two main questions: 
Were these righteous decisions, and duly authorized by the 
right sort of people? 

If an American does not have these rightly decided, then 



76 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

how can he be a consistent Republican, of the Constitutional 
Representative School? He then debars himself of the 
noblest rights of suffrage. Is it possible, that Americans 
are not to exercise this supreme right in religion, as in pure 
government? Have Americans ever yet exercised their 
suffrage on the ballot of What is the bible and its divine 
authorities? The first greatest duty of mentality is its cor- 
rect use of mind, first to God, then to man; that makes the 
best. Honorable analysis is the wisest, best use of mind^s 
duties; the correct knowledge of what to do, and to whom 
and what that knowledge is to be devoted. If wrong, the 
best attainment of right is correction ; that none but bigots 
deny. 

The patriots of ^t6 and '89 were statesmen and heroes, 
who originated and perfected constitutional representative 
government of this model Republic, that is without a 
parallel in history. Well may the nations of the earth con- 
secrate its reality. Americans must commemorate their vir- 
tues — pay due respect to the most eminent of all matrons. 

Where stands America ? In the sublimity of a glorious 
mentality. 

A just national laudation recognizes her impressions, 
pervading the length and breadth of the globe, with her 
commerce and institutions telling on its mighty theatre. 

What distinguishes this country from all others, but her 
monotheist institutions, progressive and conservative of 
normal principles, the light and model for all minds, the 
American code for all nations. 

She has given the highest evidence adduced by her illus- 
trious citizens, that her domestic and international policy 
needs no oriental school, no servile copyists of its degraded 
polygamy. Her position having excluded all faith from 
politics, having most wisely separated church from the 
sacred precincts of state, presents the true elements 



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at her birth of religion and government. Her progress 
of mind to mentality furnishes individuality the conscien- 
tious thought of noblest aspirations to best nationality, by 
honoring such sons, dead or living, as her worthiest jewels, 
whose illustrious deeds her generous and grateful bosom 
affectionately embraces in the vital elements that conse- 
crate the feelings and dignity of rising and exalted great- 
ness. 

With her Washington having precedence in the mighty 
scale of great and noble men; with nations, as that of 
Greece, contributing to his national monument; others mov- 
ing her liberality for annexation ; the adoption of national 
civilization; the God of the universe presiding over her 
monotheist principles, without which no nation can per- 
manently prosper in the happiness of humanity; with her 
matchless and excellent Constitution — her statute of a na- 
tion's birth-right — for the vindication of the sacred laws 
of physiology, that repel all fanatic polygamists, bespeaking 
for itself its own perpetual conservation among her wise 
and patriotic sons, for the admiration and adoption of all 
mankind : happy was she to have such mighty intellects 
and patriotic statesmen for the lofty deed, her beloved 
citizens for its advocacy. 

Her distinguished virtue is the consistent maintenance 
of honorable peace, while the marshalled millions of Euro- 
pean standing armies are vainly fighting for impracticable 
phantoms of faith, and their balance of power. 

Let imperial priests, princes of foggyism, dismiss all these 
idle vagaries, and let their nations possess liberal institu- 
tions, that only give adequate protection to the oppressed 
of monarchical regime, by resorting to their only rightful 
position of the United States of Europe. They all have 
to consider maturely on what ihe American Hemisphere 

has done for the other, in giving it its first lessons in the 

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elements of religion and government, that it should most 
wisely study. 

The American banner, marked by stripes and glittering 
with stars, the emblem and motto of her soul-trying adver- 
sity and subliraest prosperity, can arouse them on to a suc- 
cessful issue, if absolutely necessary for permanent benefit. 



In what Country and Government abides Religion 1 — As 
all monarchical governments are allied to faith-organiza- 
tions, for the defence of which kings are responsible, where, 
but to American people and government, that is severed 
from church and faith-organizations, can the world of mind 
look with just confidence ? What, then, are all faith-organ- 
izations of polytheism allied to monarchical governments, 
but so much of their policy for combined defence of aristo- 
cratical, fuedal, and monarchical power ? As the people, 
the great body of mankind, have nothing of interest, tempo- 
ral or eternal, in any such faith-organizations, factions, and 
bible codes, books as their exponents, codified to defend 
them, they must turn from this polytheistical oligarchy with 
all its infidelity, endorsed by atheism, to God's religion, 
popular rights, and normal education endorsed by mentality, 
the only true demonstration of immortal existence. 

It is high time that a conservative change be justly 
made from a pagan policy to monotheist institutions. 
Whence, otherwise, is the change to come? Kings can- 
not change their faith, and be kings. They and their 
satellite priesthoods may be daily convicted by monotheists 
of all the iniquities of their faith, palmed off as a base substi- 
tute for religion, still their sordid interests hold them fast 
to their slavish and degrading doctrines. How can this 
change be made ? Let the God-given monotheist institu- 
tions supersede the functionaries of faith, and expel them 
from public rule and emoluments. 



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The world does not need anything they call revelations, 
as it requires revelations most comprehensively useful that 
the universe discloses, the model God gives. It needs no 
Moses who was only mosaic, went for himself and Jewism. 

As man cannot connect any such faith-organs with the 
monotheist God, as the childish, credulous, weak, imbecile, 
pagan mind cannot retain its innate ideas, the more reason 
has it for the universal chart. 

What a vast and mighty power in the world is the en- 
gine of political machinery, wielded as faith-organization I 
What a lever of diplomacy and demagogueism ! 

The necessary change now^ required by mentality in the 
regime of the world is for the free mind of American free- 
men. At least, the antidote of normal principles for the 
present should go with the moral poison of polytheism and 
atheism, as both are broad-cast. This will put the just 
rights of mind beyond the malign influence and veto of 
executive kings, who cannot stand the exaltation of men- 
tality. Those who adhere to a millennium can only secure 
it by adoption of monotheist institutions, that will insure 
the triumph of the people. 



Wkal Convulses I he Moral World? — The king of hum- 
bugs — faith, the humbug of kings, priests, and spoilsmen. 
Should the people show any mercy to such, the distortions 
of faith, the most expansive artifice of the world ? They 
will not after the full developements of mind, exhibited by 
all the faculty of mentality. But faith-demagogues, in the 
pulpit and of the press, pretend that if they fall, that the 
revolutionists should impart a better bible. 

Where is the God-given chart of monotheist ideas for 
universal thought, word, and deed of humanity, that covers 
the whole ground? Where is God, bible-mongers? Was 
God in Israel and nowhere else, bigots? What blind 



80 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

fanaticism ! Is not God the omnipresent of the universe, 
as universally represented by principles that must be an- 
nulled to make Deity local? How, then, can his code be 
mosaic, or less than the chart of the universe ? 

Faith-mongers ! Religion, principles that are normal, 
do not justify faith-organizations nor their bibles. Now 
what does it all avail, to talk about religion to such cliques 
of collusion? The idea is most fallacious. They only 
mock at the credulity of the mass. The monotheist posi- 
tion will bear down all opposition, when realized in the 
treasury and cabinet of mind ; that is when mentality affixes 
the seal of its greatness, and shapes all right-thinking 
minds. 



The Deity of his Revelation. — The God of the Universe 
is the God of Mentality. What other than his adequate 
causation is to falfil the requisitions of the normal conscience 
of mind ? Mentality ever needs something that has sense 
and virtue in it; no abstraction, much less speculation, but 
monotheist institutions. 

Any caviller might as well resist the cause of one effect 
in any one phenomenon, as the causation of universal phe- 
nomena. The demonstration is as absolutely proved for 
the consummation, as for any one of its parts, by His uni- 
versal chart-revelation. As education, as conscience is 
either normal or conventional, any faith that is not of the 
first, is necessarily of the last, and unprincipled. 

The pagan god of Moses is like Moses; he has not men- 
tality enough to carry Moses out of criminal faith. 

The atheist has mind in his necessity that implies obliga- 
tion, and that cannot be abstract no more than natiare, both 
of which are in abeyance to cause and effect, that are, in 
turn, to adequate causation. 

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AMERICA VINDICATED. 81 

deluded by mock religion, whether the douceur comes from 
kings or tiaraed monks. All such are as pictures palmed 
off on the credulous buyer under false names of artists. 

What essence of rehgion does the trickery of perfidious 
faith convey? The deluded are amenable to the pity of the 
world, if not contempt, for participation. Depend on it, no 
church, priest, Pope, or Czar can impart aught of religion. 
All that they can give, when assuming more than man, is 
a miserable fraud, that is for the same purpose, on their 
people. There is but one God, the monotheist Creator of 
the Universe; all else are the pagan substitutes of trinity or 
multiplicity. The universe decides the first. 



Which was the First, the most Ancient Religion? — That 
which demonstrates Deity monotheist, and defines itself 
everlastingly the only one monotheist. The universal chart 
is conclusive, as exclusive of all others, that can only be 
faith-organizations, the perpetual germs of social and moral, 
mental and religious difficulty. Their faith-bibles have been 
adopted on loose and unfounded statements, however en- 
dorsed by collusive courts. Discreet and honorable judg- 
ment revolts at all such, as positively ex post factos, that 
contravene the normal principles of creation. On what 
basis, then, does the claim of mosaic revelations rest, when 
the mind has to award its own capital in the executive con- 
struction ? The brains of honesty must forever negative 
such, as high-handed heresy to God and religion. Inde- 
pendent Americans can never take the faith of monarchs. 
What is there of all the faiths in the world, but types of 
the same of all ages and countries, and those of spoils party? 

Religion teaches man to beware how lie trifles with vio- 
lations of principles. He may deceive a confiding friend, 
one of sense and principles, once, but the deceiver will 
hardly have another trial; if so, that will be the fault of 



82 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

the sufferer. Religion teaches where to find a man of prin- 
ciples, only by their practical illustration put to the fullest 
test. As society exists on normal principles, all social rules 
must be normal, a credit on normal debt. The word mon- 
otheist must ever be present in all matters of appreciation 
of God, to do strict justice to God, the hierarch of creation. 

What a horrid malign under-current prevails in society, 
to misrepresent monotheist institutions. As to any effectual 
associations, all that are effectually beneficial are monotheist; 
all others are merely political — for private, selfish ends — no 
other. Superficial observers give us to understood that 
religion has not advanced — for a time. Why should it not ? 
Let mind advance, and religion advances, that is certain. 
But if they mean, as they clearly do, that faith has not 
advanced, that is the highest evidence that mentality is 
that much better in this progressive age. 

The profoundest philosophers can see the great manifes- 
tations of civil and religious liberty in the United States 
Government, established in 17 16, the highest practical 
illustration of monotheist principles. 



What is Deity^s Official Functionary? — The mentality of 
mind, not patent saviours of Jewism that ignores a universe 
of grace, righteousness, and mercy, and yet that is most 
wisely conserved. All of the universe most worthy is men- 
tality — normal developement of mind that is the exponent of 
religious principles, Christ was an exponent affiliation of 
reformed Jewism, as Moses w^as the exponent of ancient 
or original Jewism, Joe Smith the exponent of Mormonisra, 
Mahomet of Mahomedanism. The world does not need 
conventionalisms, but normal principles, as its exponents. 
We see the absolute proof in American Mor monism of the 
very worst retrogression, by reason of such miserable pre 
tences. But, says the apologist who loves bigotry, give 



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me a proper substitute for my bible ere I give it up. I 
reply, yours is a miserable, ridiculous apology for God's 
sublime chart. It is a mere book of Jewism, that has no 
nationality. What is the difference between frauds of 
paper and bil^le currency, whether issued by brokers or 
kings? Such will ever be refused by all minds of good 
standing. The world needs watching — the ecclesiastical 
part above all. 

We see that such arc regarded with jealous care here; 
how mucli more, then, is it expedient to be watched in 
European monarchies? What have Americans to do with 
such? No more than with monarchy. They have got 
rid of the last; why should they adhere to its tory doc- 
trines of faith- organization ? Is the great American mono- 
theist principle never to be fairly audited by the American 
people, by repulse of sycophants and collusive spoils party ? 



yVte Disinterested Test of Monothcist Viftucs. — Those 
who claim to be the most exalted in the scale of religious 
supremacy, as the Christians, assume that theirs is the only 
position to decide the same. 

They claim, as Christians, to mouo})olize all religion and 
usufructs, and to do all that mankind need thereof. But 
where was the monotheist capital of Deity, the universal 
adequate antecedent ? Can these modest casuists aver that 
man can reacli the su})Iimity of religion without monotheist 
institutions? What answered adequately before Christian- 
ity ? Of what weight and force are all their assertions, in 
the face of universal facts, that rule mentality forever? 
The Mormon makes the same declaration. But the Chris- 
tian differs with others about his views of religion. So do 
the Mormon, Mahomedan, and Jew. 

What, then, is to reconcile all these diifercnces aright, 
with exact justice? That standard of genuine integrity 



84 AMERICA YIN Die AXED. 

that purities public conscience and rules out all counterfeits: 
in short, nothing less than the normal principles of Deity. 

But it is hard for the Christian to yield his faith to any 
authority. It is harder for him to forsake the idols of his 
avarice and ambition, that mislead him from the path of 
his monotheist duty. It is harder for the Mormon to retire 
from his ill-gotten booty and beauties, his women too; but 
all this has to be done absolutely by all men, who are to 
forsake, as partisans, all their faith-organizations and in- 
carnations, and all their spoils of office, and return to the 
honor and honesty, the disinterested purity of monotheist 
institutions. 



The Absolute Triumph of Monotheist Institutions over all 
Infidelity. — As the supremacy of monotheist institutions is 
the paramount consideration of all mankind, mind should 
secure its absolute triumph over all infidelity thereto, by 
its sublimest state, that of mentality. 

Less than that compromises all that is most valuable to 
it, by sinister, pernicious, and perfidious faith-organizations 
of designing conventionalisms. 

As all wise statesmen eschew political factionists, so all 
monotheists must absolutely reject all faith-factions. 

Deity has vouchsafed monotheist institutions for the per- 
petual conservation of the universe, the immortal welfare 
and happiness of creation, the noblest part of which is 
mentality, that has ever to revere the Creator of absolute 
existence as an absolute certainty, as demonstrated as the 
certainty of the solar system, or the system of systems — 
the universe. This alone constitutes the infallibility of 
religion. All papal, imperial, or ecclesiastical infallibility, 
however plausible to partisans, is totally irresponsible to 
mentality, much more to mentality-faculty. The inevitable 
consequence of such adhesion produces not only anarchy, 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 85 

but diversified despotisms most difficult to eradicate. Say 
what partisans will, as long as faith-organizations persist, 
wars and conflicting antagonisms of mankind must ever exist, 
to defend them as wrongs and nuisances. No such patch- 
work can ever compromise the institutions of Deity, nor be 
justified by all the powers on earth. Would God set aside 
his sublime monotheist universal revelations, for contempti- 
ble Jewism, that maligns mentality and libels Deity ? As 
mind is the power next to Deity to rule the world, in its 
mentality alone must that faculty exist. Mind, then, has 
to acquiesce in its righteous and just decisions, from which 
there can be no appeal as endorsed by conscience, judg- 
ment, reason, and experience, ever conformable to the 
progress of conservative monotheist light. The beauty 
and strength consist in having all in its normal purity. 

This, then, gives the absolute, certain monotheist author- 
ity, without which all is arbitrary, conventional, and neces- 
sarily antagonistic. 

Mind, only on the monotheist position, receives the most 
absolute certainty of demonstration, that the monotheist 
God is to be adored by monotheist mentality. 

Monotheism, then, presents the credentials of the loftiest 
plenipotentiary to the mind of man. If mentality, in its 
universal empire, be sublimely elevated by constitutional 
liberty, what must be its sublimity with monotheist 
supremacy? Monotheism must and will insure universal 
popularity, as soon as popular analysis is secured by men- 
tality. 

Let, then, the monotheist vindication be asserted by all 
legitimate capital, and its absolute triumph will be full, 
complete, and triumphant. What a change for the best 
will come over the world, when citizens of the agricultural 
districts can receive lessons in purity and integrity from 
the heads of government ! The world must look indepen- 
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86 AMERICA V i N D I A T E D . 

deutly to itself to have this mighty work properly executed, 
not to any irresponsible agents. To avoid the most evil 
and realize the most good, let it secure the best fruition of 
monotheist institutions of the Creator. 



Religion is Monotheist. — Religion embodies, oi is the 
consummation of monotheist, organic, normal principles 
that Deity created, and that mentality must normally a^v 
preciate, and is, therefore, universal in its application to 
physical, mental, social, and moral jurisprudence. Ameri- 
can statesmen have, in their glorious Constitution, the no- 
blest representation and vindication of this position, that 
those called divines, as all mankind, should properly study 
and adopt as humanity. The monotheist institution was a 
part of creation, and is the plenary revelation of the mono- 
theist chart, which is the lesson for mind. 

All others are evidences of mind's infantile and meta- 
physical state, that determine in all the fallacies of con- 
ventionalism, atheistic and polytheistic, of all varieties of 
sectarianism. 

All others than the monotheist institution are mere 
stereotyped editions of faith-organizations, that originate 
from pagan innate ideas, the nonentity of which is equiva- 
lent to the paternity. 

Mentality, then, has ever to recognize, not what bible 
raosiac dictators pretend, but what God's chart-diploma to 
mind reveals. 

The ever-progressive revelations of the universal chart 
utterly preclude all stereotype foggyism. It furnishes mind 
for recognition all adequate, universal, practicable, availa- 
ble, religious means. Those who dissent from its mono- 
theist premises, stultify their minds as believers most 
credulous, as they are absolutely unacquainted with the 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 87 

true origin or contents of their bible, as to its vital, truth- 
ful elements. 

Those who adulterate their minds with any stereotyped 
faith, are not wisely monotheist, are committing evil com- 
munications, and omitting religion 



All Good Government is Normal, and therefore Mono- 
theist. — Mentality has ever to study normality as its uni- 
versal lesson, as that which conserves its sablimest institu- 
tions, and consecrates their permanent consistency. But 
for this, the only conservative basis, conventionalism, the 
deed of immature or pagan mind, invades universal society 
with its universal evil results. 

The less mind is under the normal protection of men- 
tality, the less perfect are its conservative functions. For 
this reason, in remotest past ages, the invasion of the spoils- 
party conspirators was most successful, while kings, priests, 
and satellites are now the laughing-stock and scorn of 
monotheist mentality, -the maturest state of mind. The 
proof of this is seen in idol and pagan temples, the worship 
of stars or part of their systems, Mormon polygamy, 
the standing army of Europe to the amount of five and a 
quarter millions of men at this time; while the normal gov- 
ernment of the United States presents a monotheist Consti- 
tution, the education of mind on normal principles, with a 
policy, national and international, of the most liberal order, 
an expanding commerce, a towering industry, and a pacific 
example ripening into the most magnificent destiny and 
prosperity. 

It is, then, absolutely necessary to consider that the 
uormal recognition of religion must be that of created 
unity, and that all others are counterfeits and mere faith- 
organizations. 

No law of any land can contravene this eternal princi- 



88 AMERICA V-INDICATED. 

pie, as its innovation is suicidal to universal prosperity, 
first or last. That is certain. No faith-organization can 
sanction law, as all such contravenes normal and mono- 
theist principles. Hence no sectarianism is admissible in 
normal government. 



The Monot heist Coiislitiction of the United States is Con- 
secrated hy its Normal Principles.— The great chart of Deity 
is its basis, because its normal principles are its conservative 
models. Its admission of religion is the practical applica- 
tion of all that is true and good. It recognizes no secta- 
rianism of Jewism or affiliations, and sublimely attains to 
monotheist wisdom, thus surpassing all nations, and becom- 
ing their most illustrious model for government. 

If kings, czars, and popes were wise for their country's 
good, they would estimate it as their wisest lesson, and 
yield to their people gloriously their inglorious pretences 
for religion and government. 

The Government of the United States is religious, be- 
cause it practices religion on monotheist principles. The 
Americans, by their God-right and birth or nature right, are 
monotheists — still more by their wisest government, that 
pre-eminently becomes the most illustrious of all races and 
ages. The nations of the world, especially those of Europe, 
are overlooking their most valuable treasure in not becom- 
ing a United States, and copying this model for religion 
and government. 

What, then, can the Mormon polygamists say for them- 
selves, before this governmental rebuke? The universal 
chart of religion has been recognized by this government; 
how, then, can sectarians adopt any other system, mosaic or 
affiliation, as the foundations of law or religion, when all 
such violate them most positively as mere convention oli.^ms, 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 89 

and are most detective in the normal principles of justice 
and reverence to Deity, much less of rights to man? 



The Mo7iot heist Position of Mentality constitutes the true 
Dignity^ Honesty ^ and Integrity of Free Mind. — -This posi- 
tion ever premises the facts of normal principles and its le- 
gitimate good faith. But what is faith-organization, church 
worship for? Is it for consistent truth? What man of 
honest sense can believe it ? Who, but a hypocrite or dolt, 
can practice it? Is it for popularity that most profess it? 
What man can profess faith, and yet ignore reason? This 
is the division of the unity of miud that is utterly perni- 
cious, fatal to all morals and truth. This is the very depth 
of hypocrisy or nonsense, as both faith and reason are acts 
of mind, and if one can exist as a fact, truth or part of 
religion, both can; but if one is denied, botli must be, as 
the other cannot exist. A man stultifies his own mind to 
believe in such doctrine that enslaves and compromises it, 
that contradicts and dishonors itself, in abeyance to the 
spoils party or its bible, to ignore truth or facts of 
reason. 

What horrible doctrine is that, emanating, from mind- 
polluting Asia, but unworthy of America, the government 
of which is fortified by an immortal constitutional fidelity 
to its monotheist Creator! 

There are bigots and fanatics who will not look at both 
sides of the most important questions. Such are utterly 
unsafe, unworthy of trust, and cannot elicit honorable con- 
fidence. It is an absolute fact, that mind which ignores 
reason for faith, ignores conscience, the greatest gift for pre- 
eminence in religion. Thus it is conclusively certain, that 
no faith of religion can exist independent of reason and 
conscience. 

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90 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

Amcricin Free Mind and Freenun. — -All proper acts of 
both must ever be by knowledge and consent of mentality. 
Sach men of this age have too much truth-light to be 
gulled by the violations in pagan, mosaic, and other similar 
bibles. They know what is the nature of evidence as to 
history; that it rests on demonstration of absolute facts of 
cause and effect, in accordance with the senses or their 
ideas. Having absolute demonstration of Deity and his 
unity, by his universal chart autograph, they reject all 
attempts at polytheistic trinity, plurality, or multiplicity of 
patent saviours, as the last fail forever to prove inadequate 
conservation of the causator, whom they violate and libel. 
They must perceive it a solecism that is fatal to spiritual 
assumption, to have spirits of the other world, that had 
been lost on the Arctic Steamer, apply to a mortal of this 
for advice and morale; or that spirits saved the same author 
from death in a steamer blown up and destroying many 
lives at St. Louis, when the same violate the functions of 
mentality and mentality-faculty. The last, as modest phi- 
losophers, could only have claimed an obscure occult fact, 
but have violated the first step by assumption, not demon- 
stration of spiritual nonentity. 

Deity's chart endorses positive and ofScial authority, to 
the annihilation of all mosaic and spiritual assumptions and 
their affiliations. They and their oriental prototypes were 
old worn-out furniture, ere they were ever introduced into 
American society. But it is claimed that the Jews had a 
theocracy. Was that a genuine monotheist theocracy, or 
that of Jewism ? The Mormons have a theocracv, but it 
is a Mormon theocracy. All such faith-organizations claim 
privileges from this ecclesiasticism. Then any band of pi- 
rates have analogous rights. The demonstration of mono- 
theist theocracy belongs alone to Deity, and that gives 
purity and unity of his hierarchy. 



A M E R I C A V I N D I C A T E D . 91 

The. Amerkin School. — The American school must be 
fully, adequately comprehended, not only in government, 
but for all the highest purposes of social, national, and in- 
ternational elements. 

The great question of the world is as to constitutional 
liberty or absolute despotism; monotheist institutions or 
faith-organizations; the truth-light of civilization, normal 
and monotheist, or the false position and false light of con- 
ventionalism. This fundamental question comes home to 
education and conscience, that must both be normal and 
monotheist, or conventional and despotic, alien to God and 
his institutions. 

Why should Americans be following in the wake of Eu- 
ropean or second-hand orientalism of faith-organizations, 
a part of its government, whilst they have the most refined 
elements of religion in government, independent of all con- 
ventionalism ? The American school presents the highest 
original position, worthy of interest to the world, as doing 
most justice to the great problem of human happiness. In 
what country of Europe does constitutional liberty have 
justice done it? If liberal constitutional government be 
there libeled, what must we not expect for monotheist insti- 
tutions, for which their dwarfish faith-organizations are 
substituted ? 

American free mind cannot stultify itself with such for 
the first. If faith-organizations and codes, or bibles mosaic, 
or affiliation, did not subserve the interests of collusive des- 
potisms, they would be kicked out of their society forth- 
with. Is society the servile tool of dynasties ? The Ameri- 
can school can say, that as public opinion is to govern the 
world, that it is to be that of normal principles, not that 
of conventionalism. 



American Institutions. — In a century of successful natioft- 



92 A M E R I C A V I N D I C A T E D . 

ality nearly five hundred millions of freemen, half as many 
as all the people of the present world, may exist in this 
mighty country, even in its present dimeosions. What 
would be the condition of this continent and appurtenant 
islands by that time, if annexed and triumphant in the con- 
servative principles of this religious government ? What if 
the other four great divisions of the earth — Australia, Asia, 
Europe, and Africa, with appurtenant islands — have their 
own constitutional representative rule, all having one broth- 
erhood, the monotheist institution of Deity, and all con- 
centrating in one language their mighty ideas! Is one 
century too long to defer this great event? It is but little 
more than three ages ! This is evidently a progressive 
existence of mentality. How long has it been since man- 
kind knew how to use their minds ? 

What mighty advances have been made in the last ten 
years in the world, more being realized than almost in an 
age preceding! 

But, says the captious caviller for monarchy, when popu- 
lation shall press upon the means of subsistence, what will 
be the result to such governments and liberty ? There will 
be a greater need for constitutional representation then 
than ever, as conservative principles that rule the universe 
may have their most benignant diffusion to cut down all 
idle and oppressive capital, all atheistic anarchy, all poly- 
theistic confusion and monopoly, to annihilate all ideas of 
red republicans or imperial democrats, the solecisms of 
faith-organizations or organic factions. 

As well talk of the necessity of wars for a world of men- 
tality, as the outside pressure being expedient to conserve 
from internal factions. All such is a chimera. But evi- 
dence is offered us from ancient Rome, as if this universe 
was not under the wise rule of the Mighty Architect. I 
ask, when was Rome ever a constitutional representative 



" A M E R I C A VINDICATED. 93 

government ? She was a military despotism, in adulterous 
union of her church, not less pagan than the modern, com- 
bined with the oligarchy. The world that could have added 
to her mighty potency weakened her by its provinciality, an 
alien instead of a friend. But sectionalism is to be depre- 
cated most patriotically, and must be met most patrioti- 
cally, most religiously, in good faith, not in priestly faith of 
ecclesiastical petitions to confuse supreme departments, but 
as citizens, for the good of the whole. 

What, then, can keep out sectionalism? Conservative 
constitutional normal principles. They are to save the 
Union: still better will monotheist principles, comprehen- 
sively carried out. The vulnerable national points are faith- 
organizations, an uncertain tenure, as even exhibited by 
faith-factions in this country, but completely dissipated by 
the religious principles of the government, the invulnerable 
supremacy of the nation. 

This government teaches us to know and correct our- 
selves, as a religious principle, by mutual benefits. Here 
is exemplified the science of normal principles, the educa- 
tional power of which excludes conventional doctrines, red 
republicanism, the unprincipled masses or emperors. Why 
should such exist, if the people do adequate justice to them- 
selves ? 

It is assumed that masses govern, but they are all ruled 
by normal principles that are effectually and truthfully vin- 
dicated. All the socialistic and conventional ultraism runs 
to despotism and anarchy, and must be regulated by nor- 
mar education, that schools the conscience of free minds 
into the magnanimous ideas of principles exempt from the 
transition state of aggressive diplomacy. 



Mentality the Moaotheist Element. — Mentality represents 
.all that is excellent of mind, which it conserves as the im- 



94 A M E Pv I C A y I N I) I C A T E D . 

mortal guardian. All its actions on normal principles are 
the highest evidence to mind of religion, religious science, 
and practice. . Monotheist reflection tells us to never act 
without thinking, always rightly, if practicable. 

If necessary, when important decisions are to be made 
and the lights are not certain, refrain from compromising 
mind. Never, then, compromise mind for faith, as that 
vitiates mind. Mentality peremptorily demands the right 
decision of an inquiring mind by normal principles, the 
ever-present standard. 

What, then, is mentality? The faculty of thought, 
words, and actions in mind-organization, that receives its 
ideas of the universal chart, without which they cannot 
exist. That position, then, defines the line of demarcation 
between the genuine and counterfeit. 

Faith-organization, that claims religion, is out of its ele- 
ments. It can only claim to be a theologico-political spoils 
system. That is all its intrinsic worth. All theological 
organizations are political on the purest analysis. 

Eternal vigilance of mentality is the price of liberty in 
all theologico political organizations. The clergy is cor- 
rupt, and avails itself of all the engines of corruption to 
propagate its tenets and dogmas of faith, from armed ruf- 
fians on thrones to ruffian inquisitors, assassins of helpless, 
pitiful humanity, all the undue advantages of pagan mind, 
l)y all the most ignoble and degrading means. 

Asia especially, but all parts of the globe, can prove 
the enactment of such scenes, that present the deadliest con- 
spiracy against the people. What rightful claim have any 
such to relisrious standini? ? 



The Americm Position. — The irrefragable pagan proof 
of ignorance and corruption is, that mind should have been 
stultified by the substitution of the spoils-party faith-organi- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 95 

zatiou for monotheist religion. All that faitli-orgauizations 
ever can do is political enginery for capital of the oligar- 
chy, kings, priests, and spoils-partisans, and their vioUition 
of vested rights of the people. All this is invariable, abso- 
lutely certain. 

Did pagan priests and affiliations, ancient or modern, 
ever dream of monotheist institutions ? It is certain that 
pagan mind did not, else it never could have submitted to 
ecclesiastical or sacerdotal frauds practiced upon it. The 
advocates have objected to all things else, but as they did 
not understand this universal economy of the Creator, they 
are completely throv^n out of the sphere of computations by 
their reckoning. 

Their mercenary, selfish calculation has ignored the noble 
adequate means of Deity, to elevate mind to mentality and 
its immortal felicity, itself the immortal beneficiary of its 
God, mentality-faculty, the creator of its ideas. 

The American position demonstrates the glorious illumin- 
ation of mentality, that sees that, after all the boasts of the 
types of thousands of faiths, they all have to renounce their 
spoils system, and become what they have never been- — hon- 
est, wiser, and better men, the equals of the people. The 
landmarks of pagan mind, mosaic, mahommedan, &c., are 
fast rotting away. 

American mentality endorses the elevation of mind's 
dignity, the only monotheist purpose; that is, on tlie ele- 
ments that God gave to mind. There is but that effectual, 
us God appointed. There is no reason for any temporal or 
•other power, and all attempts thereat will be futile. 



The Assumption of Atheism and Polytheism. — Their as- 
sumption is, that they have never been refuted. The men- 
tality of enlightened American free minds and freemen 
must, by this progressive age, be prepared to appreciate 



96 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

that they have never been established, and that both of 
these propositions are necessarily erroneous, hopelessly 
doubtful, entirely untrue, and destitute of entity. 

The uneducated mind that aspires to raonotheist light on 
this moinentojs question, that concerns all good govern- 
ment, pursues the only sincere way to know if they have 
ever been established. 

There is no evidence that either needs refutation with 
mentality, that now knows that both are nullities; but it is 
satisfactory for humanity to know enough to refute all con- 
sidered of any moment by special pleaders, and estop the 
needless controversy that is confined at this liberal age to 
monotheist institutions, that represent on the one part nor- 
mal organic princ'ples of the universe in their consumma- 
tion, and all the visionary speculations of pagan mind on 
the other. 

With such mind, the great question in this day of mono- 
theist light is not the adoption of what is right, but of 
the difficulty of rejecting what is so vastly profitable and 
full of dictatorial prestige — the vast spoils-system of the 
ruling circles in every country. Thus twenty millions of 
dollars are considered expended in this country alone for 
this object. 

"The incense burning in the Chinese Idol Temples is said 
to cost i£90,000,000 annually, or more than a dollar for 
every man, woman, and child in the whole empire." It is 
asserted that the ecclesiastical body of the State of New 
York hold fifty millions of dollars of the six hundred and 
fifiy millions of real and personal estate, making one-thir- 
teenth of all! What must it not be in the whole world? 

What but mentality, directed on model monotheist insti- 
tutions, can regulate mankind aright, and properly employ 
all such idle and abused capital, unproductive, in face of 
starving millions of wronged people ? 



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AMERICA VINDICATED. 97 

Constitutional Kepresentative Jurisprudence is instituted 
for general good and welfare of Mankind ^ as consecrated by 
Monotheist Institutions .—U such do not subsist, faith-organ- 
izations will arise for the supposed benefit of theologico- 
politieal oligarchies. What American will let theologico- 
political conspiracy get the better of him and country ? 
Who, that has properly analyzed the blighting curse of 
faith, ever wishes to see its organization exist in his land^ 
much less have the exclusive privilege of its governmental 
and social prestige ? What type does not need watching, 
as all have perfidious elements ? 

None but monotheist mentality can triumph over all the 
malign influences of the world, the ruling powers of faith, 
their demigods of demagogues, atheistic necessity the apol- 
ogist for the preceding, instead of nobly vindicating the mon- 
otheist rule, the efficacy of the vested rights of the people. 

An interest superior to polytheistic and atheistic infidel- 
ity exists, to that of the universe even, as it is that of 
Deity, which is absolute, that knows necessity only as per- 
taining to the necessary routine of his own causation. 

Who, but Deity, is to restrain men, otherwise irresistibly 
impelled by unprincipled theologico-political faith, who have 
enough power by armed, judicial, &c. ruffians, that make 
and enforce such dictatorial laws as suit their defence and 
conventional construction of faith ? The laws of the Medes 
and Persians were fixed and unchangeable, like all Asiatic 
theologico-political codes that were equally fixed, that fab- 
ricated a miserable fixture on the people, and so monstrous 
that they or the people had to be extinguished. 

Where now are those ancient nations ? What did those 
fixed laws avail, but hasten the loss of their nationality? 
Thus it is with the Jews, who were received by and for Jew- 
ism, an immutable priestocracy. None but monotheist con- 
stitutional jurisprudence is available. 
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98 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

The Science of Mentality is the constitutional conserva- 
tive of mind, in its physical, mental, social, moral, and reli- 
gious rights and exercise, under the exclusive responsibility 
of a universal charter. The official document is necessarily 
universal. Mentality, the recipient and beneficiary of uni- 
versal ideas, decides the universe to be officially the model 
revelation, the model bible, the model subject of its model 
studies. Its supreme lesson teaches mentality to scan the 
antecedent of its universal cause and effect, that introduce 
it to its adequate causation by Deity. 

The first impression requires the exact appreciation of his 
existence, and the absolute demonstration of the necessary 
documents can only be furnished by the universe. It would 
be, as it has been for countless ages, a monstrous solecism, 
to expect the just and adequate comprehension of mentality 
short of totality and finality. The world of mind, its ex- 
istence, is indebted to the universe and its author, and noth- 
ing else, for universal light, and must most gratefully ac- 
knowledge it by its wisest use. 

All that monotheists have to do is to recognize the uni- 
versal proof of God. jSTeither atheists nor polytheists can 
avoid the universal demonstration, the incontrovertible evi- 
dence, of the universe charter of the Almighty. 



The Existence and Faculty of Deity are Absolute. — As 
Deity is perfect absolute cause independent of effect, iden- 
tity, the idea of necessity, does not pertain to his essence, 
as this indicates cause and effect identified in one and the 
same, and negatives absolute existence. But the existence 
of the universe is necessary, as cause and effect are identi- 
fied in one and the same nature. Deity has absolute, co- 
equal elements, that present no relational necessity to each 
other, but a concentration in his unity and mentality-faculty. 

His absolute existence and faculty are coequal, and are 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 99 

absolutely demonstrated by adequate causation and univer- 
sal economy; hence the universe is the chart-proof of the 
Almighty. The universe, the consummation of cause and 
ejffect, demonstrates its God by the absolute necessity of 
adequate causation, which is essential production. Every 
phenomenon of cause and effect that compose the universe, 
and are therefore universal, adequately demonstrates the 
relative or relational existence only of reproduction, that 
has necessarily its adequate antecedent, that is supreme 
thereto. 

As the universe is the sole chartered documentary proof 
of Deity, it is entitled to all its official functions and exclu- 
sive honors. This universal functionary, with its mighty 
sun-volumes, brilliant light-bearing orbs and systems of uni- 
versal economy, God-typed with the autograph and language 
of an Almighty omnipotent and omniscient, through his 
conservative normal, organic elements, principles, causes 
and effects, is the adequate everlasting revelation of his 
creation and conservation — all monotheist, vindicating his 
absolute elements concentrated in unity, and all the expo- 
nent of adequate mentality-faculty. 



The Unity of Deity and its Perfection. — But how do we 
know that there is only one causator? Why are there not . 
more, at least several, as in the manufactures of men, wdio 
perfect their artizanship the more it is exclusively confined 
to one particular art ? 

There is no analogy between the Creator and creature 
in this respect, as the first is the perfect producer, the last 
is the reproducer from his universal fund. Our ideas are 
estopped at one causation, causator; and if more are de- 
vised, they are above or below coequality, and exist only 
in the nonentity, imaginary innate ideas, a perfect absurdity, 
from which the polytheists obtained their multiplicity of 



100 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

Gods and atheists derived their necessity. It devolves on 
the cavillers for trinity or more, to demonstrate their fac- 
titious claim, evidently an ex post facto, an after-thought, 
inoperative, null, void, and still-born. 

There is one universe, a consummation of cause aud effect, 
and that bespeaks, demonstrates only one causator. But 
some astronomers suppose that there are more universes. 
Thought or assumption of that kind is like the preceding, 
mere absurd speculation. Nothing but absolute demon- 
stration gives the solution of this transcendent problem. 

If more causators are introduced, they are the property 
of innate-idea speculation absolutely, and must be put 
supreme to supremacy, to perfection and absolute existence, 
a perfect absolute absurdity, as the ideas of mentality were 
absolutely estopped at one causator, whose existence is ab- 
solute that alone holds all in abeyance. Absolute as that 
demonstration is, it is cumulative by future fruition, the 
gift of immortality. 

The simplicity of divine unity recognizes no multiplicity, 
and is, therefore, absolutely perfect. Mentality can, there- 
fore, only recognize one causator as the perfect supreme 
unity, that holds all else in perfect abeyance, from one idea 
to universal organization and totality. 



Tke Motive Power of the ZTniverse. — This eternal motive 
power is absolute to the universe; therefore the idea of 
self-motion, as advanced by the shrewdest of atheists, Baron 
D^Holbach, is nugatory, as it absolutely requires the pri- 
mary adequate faculty of an independent absolute motor. 

As all universal faculties in the universe are moved, it is 
utterly impossible that a primary force can be universal 
property. The line of demarcation is distinctly drawn be- 
tween the primary mover and the moved. All mobility of 
bodies is exercised independent of passive influence. All 



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AMERICA VTXDIOATED. 101 

levers and fulcra of mathematical philosophy are indepen- 
dent of the influence of counteracting forces, else the power 
would be nugatory. All motive power can only produce 
counterbalancing of, or overcome an equilibrium by, inde- 
pendent position to opposite agencies. 

To remove the body out of its centre of gravity, it must 
be absolutely counterbalanced. We have in this illustration 
the positive certainty that no genius, however talented, can 
invent a perpetual motion, as the power inherent is entirely 
separate fi'om the power of primary motion. Therefore 
there is as much reason for the invention of perpetual mo- 
tion being available in mechanics, as that an atheist could 
demonstrate his position to be aught else than the most 
sterile sophistry, to have the primary motive power of the 
universe either inherently eternal or self-generative. The 
essential difference is that between production and repro- 
duction, or that of creation and procreation or regen- 
eration. ^ 



The atheistic position of Baron D^Holbach is, that ^'Mat- 
ter is Eternal and Necessary P — The monotheist position is, 
that the preceding is a complete contradiction, a solecism 
that negatives itself. What is necessary cannot be eternal. 
The first premises an absolute, the last decides a subordi- 
nate position, and has an antecedent that antedates a period 
of existence to the last. The two are incompatible, not 
convertible terms. The lines of demarcation are absolutely 
embraced by two distinct departments, and define them- 
selves as the supreme adequate causation that admits of 
no coequality, and the universe. 

This complete demonstration of Deity is a complete refu- 
tation of atheism and its subsidiary polytheism, and intro- 
duces the pure universe as the universal chart of mentality- 
faculty to mentality, to make the most of it for the present, 
0* 



102 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

and secure the best for the future, as the immortal benefi- 
ciary, with a gratitude prompted by fidehty to these mono- 
theist institutions. 



The Absolute Certainty of Unixersal De?nonstratian, — 
God, as an absolute eternal existence, precludes absolutely 
all antecedents, all coequals. Atheists assume the last in 
their necessity, but the eternal absolute causator compels 
them to their own annihilation in innate ideas, that involve 
also, in coequal absurdity, all polytheists. 

What they ask is God-like ! Their last dying echo an- 
swers, God-like ! Then it is heard in uninterrupted audi- 
ble tones, God is an eternal monotheist, himself defined 
by his universal chart of all ideas, for thoughts, words, and 
deeds of universal demonstration by eternal adequate 
causation, w^hose elements are those of a God. 

The term absolute is ever to be predicated of Deity, 
whose mentality-faculty is his synonym, perfect in poten- 
tiality. The term necessity is therefore to be predicated 
of the universe, as the organization of the eternal absolute 
antecedent, the causator of necessary causes and effects. 

The term of monotheist, then, is identified with Deity and 
his institutions, w^hile everything in life is necessary, a word 
that defiiies the w^hole — the universe. Mind can only de- 
pend on mentality, its most exalted potential faculty, for 
the best appre; iatiou and solution of this mighty problem 
of the Almighty Designer and Architect. As this solution 
is identified with the universe and its Creator, nothing less 
than immortality can subserve in the perfect solution. 

It is next to absolute demonstration that mentality is 
fully entitled to the vested rights, to its fruition as subject 
to its duties. The absolute demonstration is a right re- 
served by Deity for the wisest and best revelations, sacred 
to eternity and perfection. 



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AMERICA VINDICATED. 103 

Having secured this position of mentality, it remains for 
man, as monotheist by birth-right and life-existence, to de- 
fine his appropriate position. That is his necessary obli- 
gation, as the noble free agent under the normal circum- 
stances of his creation. He has now a universal scope of 
the completest triumph over atheistic and polytheistic infi- 
delity. 

Henceforth mentality has to prove itself entirely worthy 
of its monotheist God. It can know no creed of conven- 
tionalism, no religious sentiment but the normal result of 
organic monotheist elements and principles. 



Spirituality and Immateriality are not identified with 
Deity, as they are incompatible with each other and Him. 
The materiality that spirituality would inspire negatives at 
once immateriality as also itself, and subordinates an abso- 
lute existence Deity to a necessary existence. 

Absolute existence can only be predicated of him who 
hath no negatives, but all its creative potency and positive 
essential reality. Eternal, absolute causation is his auto- 
graph, inscribed on his universal chart. 



The God'like Qualities of Deity. — Atheism affects that 
Deity can be only portrayed in qualities, by enlarging on 
the ideas thereof afforded by man. But is this essentially 
true ? Mentality reaches all its ideas of Deity the Creator, 
a God-quality, through the universe, his chart, the univer- 
sal exponent of his ideas, that refer to him as an absolute 
existence. 

All that can be estimated as true is in credit of that 
universal authority for God, man and things. All God's 
qualities are God-like, of his standard. All are monotheist 
qualities of his model, not of man, who has necessarily to 
conform thereto, as he has been universally wrecked by his 



104 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

polytheist and atheist conventionalisms. Man can never, 
then, wander from the universal light of his counsel in all 
his vicissitudes of life. As God is the author of all prin- 
ciples, he is, then, their model. His chart describes him 
the more graphically, the deeper mentality is competent to 
understand and read it. Deity has claims universally on 
mentality through His universe, therefore both God and 
chart have their respective exclusive claims established ab- 
solutely. That of the universe is to be duly considered as 
precedent, exclusive of all others, antagonistic or vicar. 
"What others but counterfeits can there be ? 

The Devil, that is claimed by bible advocates by right 
of discovery, necessarily belongs to another universe, if an 
entity; and of course it is utterly impossible that he pertains 
to this, as it represents and vindicates God universally, its 
perfect Creator and conservator, who excludes all antago- 
nist devils, all substitutes, patent ex post facto saviours. 
There can be no parties antagonistic or vicar of God or 
his universe, as devils, witches, spirits, angels, patent sav- 
iours, prophets, miracle or mystery mongers, their bibles or 
codes; hence, as God is perfect God, they are all utterly 
excluded by vindicating precedent, creative, absolute ex- 
istence. But all such are the fabrications of pagan mind, 
traditional, an act of conspiracy against pagan mind, for 
perfidious purposes, in lieu of monotheist institutions, the 
only conservatives of mentality. 



The Sublime Utility of Monotheist Causation, — The sub- 
limity of the monotheist God bestows intelligent causation 
to mentality; while atheism predicates, assumes blind neces- 
sity, the system of fatality and the scheming polytheist 
mind factures from innate-idea absurdity his idols and fac- 
tion agents. 

Mentality, in its best efforts of reason, reflection, and 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 105 

judgment, must see the wise dispensation of mentality-faculty 
eminently displayed in the utility of the universe, his faith- 
ful, truthful, monotheist chart. It is absolutely certain that 
Deity would never dispense with his monotheist chart, that 
conserves mind to mentality, and gives it absolute demon- 
stration that atheism and polytheism are entirely erroneous 
systems of sophistry, bigotry, and superstition. What is the 
universe, otherwise, under their regimes? What is free 
agency of man under these positions ? The serf of design- 
ing libellers of humanity and its God. Atheistic life of 
man is the necessity of fatalism, the torture of universal 
dissolution. 

Hear Baron D'Holbach, page 103, of his '' System of 
Nature": *' In man, free agency is nothing more than neces- 
sity contained within himself." That is as clear as the mud 
of spiritual rappers. This is his doctrine of fatality— 102 
p. idem. '^Fatality is the eternal, the immutable, the ne- 
cessary order established in nature; or the indispensable 
connection of causes that act, with the effects they operate." 

But absolute existence rules all this as prescriptive 
wisdom. So there is an end to the nonentity-necessity. 
Man is not, then, at liberty of desultory faith as a created 
being, as subject to those prescriptive obligations that sus- 
tain the normal principles of his being, as Httle of necessity 
that is in abeyance to cause and effect, the only true version 
of monotheist causation, that cannot be impugned by the 
infatuated advocates of self-stultified affiliations, much less 
of fatality; but he is the free-will agent of free mind of 
mentality, that recognizes the sublimest reasons and most 
conclusive demonstrations. 

An American that dares be a free agent has to re- 
nounce the necessity of atheism and the idolatry of pagan 
mind, to secure the sublime purpose of the monotheist 
creation. 



106 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

T'he Responsibility of the Universe the Manothp.ist Chart. — 
Necessity, the universal rule of cause and effect, premises 
universal responsibility. Atheistic necessity-doctrine, a 
fabulous innate idea, has to yield this primary position. 

Where otherwise is the monotheist will in atheistic end- 
less necessity — the will competent to reach and execute the 
high purposes of mentality-faculty ? A miserable, breath- 
ing, impotent, cruel abortion. 

What, then, are the high purposes of monotheist recog- 
nition? The height of its sublimest functions — not the 
mere gasping racked routine of necessity, but the neces- 
sity of extatic enjoyments ; hence the free will of free 
mind must determine, through mentality, the solution of its 
own great problem. The free will of the free mind is to 
command success, by all normal principles that require the 
first rational lesson for mind capable thereof, by the de- 
monstration of Deity as a universal truth-axiom, but no 
dogma. 

What other than the universal chart is the confidential 
organ of Deity, that excludes others, as his unity excludes all 
competition ? What other can be the channel but the fac- 
ulty of mentality, that receives and gives currency to ideas? 
What is the universe but the exclusive organic element of 
ideas sacred to Deity ? Its absolute demonstration com- 
pletely estops all mankind from anything that contravenes 
Deity, or his perfect unity, by trinities, multiplicities, or 
necessities of infidel duplicity. 

This chart alone can give the elements of perfect virtue, 
honor, honesty, and integrity. 



The Monotheist Mentality' Faculty. — The nearer mentality 
approaches this absolute faculty, the more does it possess 
of the elements that annihilate time and space, or rule 
them. What advances the comforts and happiness, but 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 107 

the wise use of mentality, that gives triumphs every mo- 
ment over the rude ideas of pagan mind ? The illimited 
co-operation of mind is only seen in the world's age of men- 
tality's monuments. What is there of the universe that 
cannot be pervaded by this, the supreme created faculty? 
When a steamer resists wind and tide, and rides safely over 
the tempest waves of ocean as a thing of life, with a power 
of machinery that excels all ordinary efforts of muscle 
incapable of concentration, exceeding an extraordinary 
amount of manual labor, then the faculty of mentality tri- 
umphs over mere mind. 

Who knows of the extent of the mighty element of what 
is called electricity or polarity — to what universal agencies it 
is devoted, what extraordinary results it executes ? Where 
are the limits of science just initiated in chemistry and nat- 
ural philosophy ? See the powerful effects of steam in navi- 
gation and locomotion. All these present the faculty of 
mentality. 

What, then, must mentality-faculty be the author of all — 
the universe of such? How ashamed ought the moderns 
to be, especially in America, who are enabled to monothe- 
ize their minds by progressive civilization, yet paganize it 
to the low ancient foggy ism. The moderns now know that 
the world is not flat, as the pagan Moses taught by his 
deluge, nor is immovable, as Jos^hua falsified by his sun 
and moon stopping, nor is governed by their Jewism, the 
laws of which are to be submitted to God's principles, as 
the expansibility and elasticity of monotheist institutions 
cover universal ground, so that no partial or especial agency 
can emanate. 



The purity of language defines the purity of ideas. Let 
us define what is Religion, and Faith then will define itself. 
Religion is the consummation of principles. What are 



108 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

principles ? The conservative elements of creation, not the 
conventional dogmas of faith, or tlieologico-political organi- 
zations. Bat, says the sophist bigot, religion is what a man 
practices towards his God, whether idol or not. Then are 
principles dogmatized as the property of conventionalism, 
that may be the worst abuse of religion. Therefore any- 
thing called worship to all and every vice, deitied or incarnat- 
ed, is religion — religious principles. What a desecration of 
ideas and language! Then is the crocodile god-worship and 
fighting therefor religion, predicated on religious principles! 
Did the God of the universe ever create such principles ? 
As he did not, then is it not faith? Who, then, drew the 
sword in the crocodile war? Faith only could draw the 
sword that invariably becomes two-edged, and cuts into its 
own vitals both ways, even into religion. Hence religion 
did not draw it. Faith, then, is aggressive under the hie- 
rarchies of faith-organizations, that have serfs to do their 
bidding, inquisition, intolerant persecution, perjury and war- 
fare. Nothing of this kind can keep people honest and 
religious. But Christianity is claimed to be the kingly 
faith. Why is it above all other faiths? Does reason so 
decide? ISTo! but its bible authority affects it. That of 
the other bibles decides the same. It might seem to super- 
ficial men to be as well for Christians to possess the field 
as Mormons, atheists, spiritual rappers, or any such pagan 
speculations. 

But is it right that usurpers should monopolize in prece- 
dence over monotheist institutions, that God gave to mind 
to enjoy by and through mentality? The time, then, must 
come w^hen the Christians will be placed with the Jews and 
Gipsies as corruptors of monotheist institutions. All priests 
and bibles play false to monotheist God and his institutions, 
by their faith-organizations, imposed on pagan credulity for 
religion. But ought custom, that has stamped faith as re- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 109 

ligion among the nations of the world, to be changed at 
this late day? Positively language ought to change with the 
purity of ideas, legalized by science. These times are pro- 
gressive, as having better ideas. The civihzation of man is 
more and more advancing. Now, our idea of earth is that 
it has rotundity; it is a spheroid, instead of the bible non- 
sense of its being a plane; hence all bibles must come up to 
the correct fixed standar(J of the universal chart of the 
Creator. As Moses could not correct the idea of the an- 
cients about the earth, where, then, are the revelations but 
in God^s universal chart ? 

Faith is only by analogy — that is, by facts of logic. But 
are not the Jews monotheists, as they believed in one God ? 
The same, then, might be affirmed of the mahommedans, 
mormons, or other pagan types. What were Moses, Ma- 
hommet, Joe Smith called ? Prophets — that is, men simu- 
lating to speak from their God as the heads or teachers of 
their people. Do monotheist institutions recognize any 
such? Certainly not; all that is polytheism. 

The first is entirely consistent, and allows of no latitude 
to nations or individuals, but defines all positions to mind 
on normal principles, that pure ideas may always be reach- 
ed by pure language. The more mentality, the more reform 
in both. But reform in mere conventional faiths is all mere 
patch-work on an old worn-out vestment. Let mentality 
pursue its moral power unrestricted. It has ever to recur to 
the glorious universal chart, the origin of all ideas to mind ; 
therefore from this all pagan authors, as Moses, Mahom- 
met, Joe Smith, stole all their bibles, and palmed off such 
on the world for theirs — conceded them by God. There is 
where the people let these monks or priests get the unmanly 
advantage of them. Do you, monotheist, born and living 
as such, disown vour monotheist God ? 
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no AMERICA VINDICATED. 

The God-grajphed Living Revelations of the Universe Rep- 
resent and Vindicate their Author. — The Almighty is pro- 
claimed above all peers hj this documentary evidence, His 
charter of the creation. Mankind have ever taken too lim- 
ited a view of this universal monotheist capital, this con- 
servative responsibility. Not revelations of the universe! 
They are nowhere else, and are ever present to mind for 
its noblest benefit and blessing. The only safety in the 
universe is the responsibility of its charter and revelations. 
Whenever any organization of faith offers man anything 
different from His universal charter, demand of the mock 
auctioneers their responsibiUty, or their departure, absence, 
and disgrace. Take away this charter of liberty and reli- 
gion, morals and virtue, and the essence of vitality is ab- 
stracted. The conspirators of the adulterous alliance of 
Church and State have defeated man's rights by deceiving 
him in this particular. Who can believe such low dema- 
gogues, that will alienate this next best gift to the soul ? 
What is one worth without the other ? 

Atheists deny God and soul to man: polytheists filch 
from him the whole charter of his mentality. Is it not 
time that intelligent American freemen arouse to the full 
sense of all their faculties, and intrust to no agents who are 
incompetent in integrity or mind to think, much less act for 
them. Why has mind only used a very small part of uni- 
versal revelations, and neglected the most valuable, as con- 
stitutional representative government, until '76, in the Uni- 
ted States, &c. ? The pure reason is, mind has not reached 
all that capacity which mentality only imparts. Mentality 
alone can look correctly, justly, and comprehensively at all 
subjects. 

Who are they that Assume that Revelations are not Uni- 
versally dispensed? — The confidants of bad pagan faith, that 



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conspire to rule. Developments are on every side for men- 
tality, that alone attains a mathematical accuracy and pre- 
cision in the science of universal revelations, that are pro- 
gressively announced. Every phenomenon of cause and 
effect is an indispensable, indelible revelation for wise peo- 
ple to appreciate and appropriate rightly in the general 
treasury of mind. 

This axiom is one of the fixed organic or normal princi- 
ples, that universal consummation is only equal to all its 
parts; and estimate the phenomenon of cause and effect, 
particularly or universally, the revelation is in accordance 
thereto. Where do all minds obtain their present and fu- 
ture dispensations, but from this sole source, the exponent 
of which is time ? And what but pagan minds can for one 
moment pretend that all the past time that records and 
reveals all past developments, is not analogous in all its 
revelations ? 

The supreme sublimity of Deity is felicitously graphic in 
his universal language for universal ideas to universal mind 
of universal nations, that are independent of all others, all 
obscure tongues. The Deity of the universe has sublimity 
of ideas correspondent to the magnificence of this revela- 
tion. That is, mentality-faculty thought, spoke, and enacted 
the existence of the universe, the unlimited object of mind^s 
study. Who can translate. any national language correctly, 
till he comprehends each distinct sentence ? Who, then, 
can translate the revelations of the universe correctly, with 
a pagan mind? What, then, are ancient pagan faiths to 
modern mentality? _____ 

T'he .Peopk^s Charter^ the Soul or Mentalities Chart, — 
The people hold their documentary charter of the God of 
the universe, and are alone directly responsible to Him, 
through mentality, the responsible faculty of mind. Men- 



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tality-f acuity, the universal benefactor, the Creator, is truly 
represented by the relations of cause and effect, principles 
universal and adequate for normal regulation of universal 
economy and good faith to the beneficiary mentality, the 
highest faculty directly appreciable to mind in the universe. 
Mentality, in its best faculty, can only appreciate Deity by 
the ideas illustrated in His universe, the universal evidence 
of His mentality-faculty. Mind can only judge of Deity 
by this almighty faculty that comprehends all. 

What, then, is mentality, as illustrated by universal fact? 
Mind can only judge of mentality, the soul, by the exercise 
of its faculty, as mentality can only estimate Deity in re- 
gard to his faculty by the universe. What is the faculty 
and capacity of the most exalted condition of mind, ex- 
pressed by mentality? It has that of pervasiveness of 
universal matter, and cognizance of Deity, its creator, 
through it. This constitutes an evidence of power through 
potential science, an evidence demonstrative of the perfec- 
tion of mentality-faculty in conservative principles. What 
limits a part of its faculty, thought ? Nothing less than 
absolute faculty, Deity himself, as it transcends the universe. 

What, then, is there of the universe that is not in abey- 
ance to this faculty of mentality? What can set limits to 
its capacity? Is it space, or time? Mentality pervades 
both. How far can mentality be relational to all the orb 
components of the universe ? The faculty of thought is 
relational thereto through the universe. As our organiza- 
tions do not traverse space, what is it that does ? Thought, 
the soul. Can immortality exclude it? It surmounts it in 
reaching Deity. What sort of element is the soul ? Is it 
not an element that surpasses the exquisite inherent quali- 
ties of all matter? and therefore its function is analogous 
to its pervasive existence. It is objected to the soul by 
cavillers of atheistic metaphysics, that its organized exist- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 113 

ence undergoes dissolution. As mortals, we perceive that 
organization is essential to the soul, necessary to its univer- 
sal existence. Man, clothed with humanity, comes into and 
goes out of the world. But that. very change, the finite- 
ness of various modifications of matter, -demonstrates an 
all-supreme power. 



No Monotheist Creation is in vain, as all Fulfill their Re- 
lational Fart. — To what purpose is mere mortality of mind ? 
All such is fatal to the proposition of monotheist consum- 
mation. Mind can appreciate the defect of the universe 
by absence of mentality. It would not, in its absence, be 
a universe. The Creator has introduced the soul to the 
universe for His monotheist purpose; He has introduced it 
to life for the best existence; it needs introduction to im- 
mortality to secure its permanent welfare and happiness. 
And how is that to be insured ? The dissolution of its or- 
ganized existence is a necessary, a cause and effect prelude, 
to reach the m^ans accorded by the Creator to render the 
soul happy. Why has mentaUty the faculty to appreciate 
its God? Deity is perfect, and could not wantonly have 
endowed the soul with this degree of power and function, 
to blight it in the hope. 

Has the All-wise Institutor of man's noblest passions, 
that aspire to immortal fruition, created them in vain ? All 
man's passions are created for real enjoyment, at maturity 
and under the proper regulation of mentality. This, then, 
forms no exception, and mentality secures the fruition in 
the maturity of its adaptation and perfection. The soul is 
only known as the sublime faculty of mind by and through 
mentality, that operates with more or less relative ubiquity 
of benefits by thoughts, words, and deeds. 

How can the soul, that lives to some purpose of its ac- 
tion, as nothing is formed in vain, that redeems the vassal- 
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114 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

age of mincl to free mind, as illustrated by the honored 
patriots, heroes, and sages of ^76, expire as useless as its 
body incorporated into its material elements ? As all will 
have by dissolution a mutation to analogous elements, what 
are they of this choicest specimen of production ? 

The soul is the official faculty, the life-adjusting guardian. 
We can estimate the soul, the mentality-faculty, by the pa- 
gan mind, that is necessarily ignorant, depraved, corrupt, 
corruptible, and corrupting. Why is this difference? From 
the sterihty of its food. By rigid adherence to monotheist 
institutions, mentality in all its magnificence is developed. 
By their neglect pagan mind, that lives in all ages as the 
barren vegetation, the worthless weed of existence, springs 
up on its own folly and weakness. What does the primary 
cause and grant of life, the august creation of the universe, 
imply? The highest revelation, the quality, capacity, and 
faculty of mentality. That premises adequate means for 
their fruition. The demonstrative evidence to mentality of 
Deity premises adequate correlative advantages. When it 
is decided that the universe was instituted for monotheist 
purposes, the consummation is demonstrated in the mono- 
theist existence. But atheism affects that man predicates 
his ideas of Deity on man's image and character, when the 
very reverse presents through the universal chart the model 
Deity for mind. AH others, atheistic and polytheistic, are 
innate ideas, absurd nonentities. God is facultized mental- 
ity, that renders man organized mentality. 

Man is a spirit, as he is indebted to the atmosphere for 
spiritual or breathing existence — the only being that we can 
recognize as spirit that is referred to as spirit-existence, 
whereas God is not and cannot be as God. Then what is 
mind without body, organization ? What is the universe, if 
organized mentality be blotted out ? The monotheist insti- 
tutions of the universe endow mentality with the sublimest 



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functions for happiness, that would seem imperfect unless 
immortal. 

The conclusion is inevitable, the evidence demonstrative, 
that the perfect Deity has not created the soul or mentality 
for less than the highest, best of purposes, and that anything 
less than immortal fruition would be fatal to the whole pro- 
position. The more valuable the possession, the more costly 
is its acquisition. Where is there a rose without its thorns ? 
The richest of all flowers, the immortal soul, can only blos- 
som and fructify in its appropriate climate and space, the 
immortal presence of mentality-faculty. 

But why has not Deity vouchsafed the whole revelation 
on this theatre? Would that be wise, to anticipate by im- 
mature verdancy that which only matures by a universal 
integrity? Immortality, conceded without the benefits of 
elaborated exertion and all the triumphs of merit, would 
be that much divested of its intrinsic w^orth. Its revela- 
tion, now next to certain demonstration become absolute, 
could not render man as man on earth all adequate benefits 
of religion, as the premises of his own exertions and hopes 
to be realized, to say nothing of the ennui of life with many, 
w^ho would anticipate in wish, if not in act, its dissolution. 



The Civilization of Man is Monotheist Provision. — The 
monotheist institutions of Providence are his bountiful ade- 
quate capital for all mankind, as monotheists, to insure the 
sublimity and purity, the felicity of mentality, while faith- 
organizations, in their whole type, are the ignoble pretexts 
of pagan minds, to overreach the immature and imbecile 
great human family. All mankind are monotheists, as their 
monotheist creation insures, emanates from the one perfect 
Almighty. It is the most felicitous wisdom of mentality- 
faculty that He has not left man^s actions at tlie mercy of 
human creeds or faiths, or any such arbitrary contingency. 



116 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

It is utterly impossible for faith-organizations to present 
a true standard for conscience, as they all invariably ema- 
nate from speculative iniquity and political conspiracy. 
What can it profit man, as to his civilization, to gain the 
whole world of such inanity, and lose the jewel of the mind, 
the right decision, the conservative civilization of mentality? 
But few people know what they do believe, as fashion of 
courts, interest or prejudice of self and associations, directs 
them at the bidding of those who dictate without princi- 
ple. How few pure monotheists have done justice to their 
own minds, the races of mankind, the creation, or their 
Creator, which is most of religion! The positive reason is, 
that pagan mind has had the ascendancy, and the enlight- 
ened independence of mentality has not been eifectually de- 
clared, for the real good of civilization. Monotheists have 
done little, as yet, to recover what has been wrested from 
all mankind by infidels, polytheist and atheist, who have 
outraged God and his monotheist institutions. 



The World is one of the Radiating Schools of Revela- 
tions. — Life gives the diploma in the lessons of universal 
phenomena of cause and effect. These teach mind to ap- 
preciate the nature of things as they are. 

Who is the discontented and weak mind that asks of 
Deity- more dispensations than he has vouchsafed? As 
well request another universe. He that thus commits 
mind is impeachable for want of wisdom or integrity. 
The best maxim of wisdom is, to secure all the available 
capital of such position as absolutely necessary, since this 
is all that can be justly expected in this state of organic 
existence. 

Is the person who violates wisdom prepared, in responsi- 
bility, for all disadvantages as advantages ? Does the ob- 
jector know to what a miserable existence this folly would 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 117 

lead, ill unveiling the events of the mighty future ? The 
enjoyment of the present and the solace of the past would be 
merged in the sorrowful anticipations of that to come — life 
would be a curse, and existence its penalty. 

What fatuity about divspensations, codified as mosaic, or 
spiritual, as infallible popes or theatrical rappers fabricate 
all similar types of imposition theologico-political ! What 
fanaticism about milleniums, to render existence of the 
human race happy, when its permanent security has been 
guaranteed with absolute certainty by the monotheist insti- 
tutions of Deity ! The victims of the miscalled spiritual 
demoralization might have been saved, had they wisely 
studied the true maxims of these lessons, that man alone is 
spirit, and that that is false doctrine which premises God 
or mentality, dissolved from earthly organizations, a spirit 

The universal chart meets mentality's fullest approbation 
and affection. Any other can inspire no just confidence 
with any but pagan minds. It is clearly evident that the 
present dispensation of the universe, evolved alone by time, 
the only exponent of universal facts, is the only one adapted 
to the constitution of mind and nature, the universal fiiiic- 
tionary. 

But the bigots affect yet to foist in mosaic ones. Have 
they more regard, then, for an imposter — in a word, for their 
own self-interests — than the general welfare of mankind, 
whom God made altogether monotheist ? Americans that 
know all the types of priests to be swindlers, cannot stop at 
that point of excluding them. Tlieysee the whole evidence 
of priest-swindling daguerreotyed in the Mormon ajjology 
of faith-organization, an adulterous polygamy, and the 
making kings of their church prelates, uniting Church and 
State despotism. 

As mankind have been cut out of their birth-right in 
govermnent by monarchy, they have been cut out of their 



118 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

inonotheist birth-right by faith-organizations and usurpa- 
tions. Why, then, have them, that ever present such 
dangerous and needless exposure to temptation? It is a 
remarkable fact, that they, above all others, that decried 
exposure to temptation most, in libeling Deity by advising 
liim thereof in petition, are the patent saviours that have 
left the most fatal faith-temptations, that lay Europe in 
carnage and gory murderous wars by their two-edged 
swords. Never will this be rightly corrected till conceited 
pagan mind obeys the mandates of mentality. 



What is the Conscience?— Th^t valuable organ of mind 
that executes the excellency of religious principles. How 
can it be executed ? Only by and through normal educa- 
tion. That brhigs us to the due investigation of religious 
normal principles. No mosaic bibles can fairly comprehend 
or represent them. 

All normal principles are supreme by conservation of 
the universe embraced in cause and effect. Terrific as 
world or universe storms and concussions are, still all are 
in abeyance to principles for vindication of purity. Men- 
tality-faculty gives all creation subservient to the great 
object of mentality, in its felicitous conservation, and princi- 
ples rule all matter rightly to this universal necessity of 
cause and effect, to the most beautiful harmony, the most 
salutary and perpetual consistency. 

It is the duty of all states to have the adequate protec- 
tion against all physical and social poisons of conscience. 
One of the clearest before mentality is faith-organization. 
All nations have their vices as America has hers, but any 
nation that lets in organic faith-vice, licenses universal licen- 
tiousness. 

America, then, is vindicated from governmental union 
with this odious criminality, and is that much better than 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 119 

the balance of the world. The clergy affects to rebuke 
vice in general, while it stupidly has embraced the mother, 
and despoiled the family of man. 

What does free mind of mentality need a priest for ? 
To expend a living on him ? Is that honorable, honest, 
religious conscience in the priest, to ask or receive money 
of his equal or better fellow-citizen, knowing that all he 
has done is worthless? The priest, then, is a swindler to 
all intents and purposes, in the code of religious honesty. 



The Exclusive Universal Chart is attempted to he Fraudu- 
lently Counterfeited. — What are the counterfeits that are 
palmed off? They are all types of faith, in adulterous 
union with monarchies and their provincials. These types 
of faith commit all kinds of fraud of the worst sort before 
God and man, and give paternity to generations of crimi- 
nal evils, an endless batch of frauds. Whoever receives 
them knowingly, impeaches his integrity, as he justifies 
counterfeiting. They are guilty and responsible who receive 
and endorse this clear perjury with facility, because, though 
a kingly one, it is of the court. 

What is the reward ? The infallible Pope stultifies 
mind of his own people, who ought to be free minds en- 
dowed with the brightest mentality. W^ould this apology 
of a man prefer this degradation of his people, to the glo- 
rious honor of being right and religiously just ? All faith- 
organizations violate all the normal principles of existence. 
All saviours, incarnations, avators, deifications, patented, 
-canonized, or sainted, are unauthorized nullities, that all 
but pagan mind can see, know, and contemn. Those who 
give currency thereto, are playing false to Deity and his 
universal chart. 

As long as the last exists, all bibles, Mosaic, Mormon, 
Mahommedan, are estopped. Ail such are irresponsible 



120 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

and worthless. The only religious responsible basis for all 
mankiud is on mouotheist principles. Mankind need their 
conservative action, that will ever preclude all the evils, 
atheistic and polytheistic faith-organizations, or want of 
proper conservation. 

Free Mind. — The progress of this best age bids fair to 
counteract much of conspiriog organizations, that vitiate 
book^5, corrupt the press and booksellers, that palm off im- 
perfect dictionaries and histories for those of normal science, 
most unjust to monotheist ideas that fully confront all machi- 
nations most demagogical, that debase the noblest genius of 
mind to incompetency and unworthiness of fiduciary honor. 

The mouotheist free mind is eminently vindicated in 
American institutions, presenting the loftiest of all national 
triumphs, that a perfect Providence has furnished the 
necessary means to advance man as he intended at first, for 
so far from his fall or the curse of the earth, that both are 
perfect man and earth, an undeniable position to polythe- 
ists, who seek to destroy the influence that overwhelms 
them all in oblivion. 

The free press of America must speak out freely. But 
is not even the American press repressed by ecclesiastical 
censors, social proscriptions, the relic of barbaric royalty ? 
As reformer, does it go far enough for the elevation of 
mentality to lasting ages of time ? The right influence of 
the press can be, if properly directed, effectually felt over 
the world. The world must ever respect the full legiti- 
mate power of the press. 

Its restrictions, even in this country as on free mind, by 
foul associations, faith, political, and theological, that are 
one and the same to the spoils party, spread this malign 
conspiracy of faith-faction that ever engenders warfare. Is, 
then, the press ever venal, subsidized, or incompetent of 
its functions ? 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 121 

Wkai Interest have the Anierica7is in Fcnth'^ — Only as a 
matter of truth, sul)ject to demonstration, otherwise it is 
too dearly purchased. What is all the faith of convent- on- 
alism worth ? Kothing; yet men have sold their birth-right 
for this credulity, nonentity, the necessary dictation of poly- 
theism to exist. What faith-organization has not been 
abused politically — made the serf of party? No faith is 
worth anything, unless to be endorsed by positive essential 
facts. What does any of its bibles define? 'Nothing but 
its conventionalism. The Jew bible defines Jewism. Wliat 
is the position of believers ? They are that much weaker 
by this violation of the great fundamental principles of 
monotheist institutions; and, if with full and perfect knowl- 
edge of the fraud, to receive and endorse it would be fraud- 
ulent. 

But is not Christianity a benevolent organization? Where 
is the evidence that Christianity, or any other faith-organi- 
zation, ever contributed one single new idea, any additional 
stock to the original creation? Philanthropy, and all other 
virtues that adorn man, are monothe'st institutions and 
ideas, and ov/e their paternity to the benignity of Deity, 
their revelation to mentality. Hence Christianity deals in 
false assumptions and premises, while monotheist adhesion 
is conspicuous by fidelity to principles. This is established 
aliead of all poisons, physical and social, liquor or other, 
by universal legislation. What, then, can faith-bibles teach, 
that Deity has not already provided for most wisely? 

Adopt, Americans, most wisely itiis provident benefits, 
and use them most effectually. 



The Sacred Position of Rcligoon. — The position of reli- 
gion is authorized on the best a{)preciated, estab!i>hed nor- 
mal unerring principles. Any laith-organization that as- 
sumes to represent religion, is iniquitous in the inception 
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122 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

and criminal in its execution; violates all normal principles. 
The right to religion is the reserved right of the Creator. 
No government on earth, no papal or imperial priest, can 
act vicar in religion for a moment. All their proceedings 
are nugatory, and are amenable as treacherous to monothe- 
ist institutions. These are the safeguards that God created. 
Faith-organizations, so far from giving the last, violate 
them ; are the general violations of religious principles and 
conscience. .What restricts cupidity and perfidy? Con- 
science ? That had been originally violated. Nothing less 
than the true education of monotheist principles, that pro- 
duce expansion for general good, exalted to extatic immor- 
tal beatitude; while the last are limited only by universal 
degradation and ruin. Where is responsibility, that rules 
mortals of every grade, to be adequately fixed? Not in 
the infallible will of popes, nor in his codes or bibles of his 
types and keeping. Providence has answered the question 
by prudence. The public needs, and has indisputable right 
to, all the safeguards of adequate protection. What are 
they? The model government of the United States teaches 
the world. 

The first faith-issue was a false currency, and has flooded 
the world with that and all its concomitant evils, a multi- 
tude of crimes, bloodshed, and assassinations, loss of life, 
liberty, property, reputation, soul, mind and body — thus 
faith is aggressive on religion, and does injustice to its insti- 
tutions. It is worthless, and not fit to be trusted by honesty. 



Faith- Organizations. — -But where is the mosaic, the chief 
of these? The universe, in self-justice, has nothing to do 
with him more than man, as its consummation has entire 
precedence ; and as his paper bible is part of its dust, it will 
return thereto. God did not need Hebrew or Mosaic sec- 
retaries when the universe executed his whole revelation. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 123 

The universe, then, is and has ever been God's secretary, 
and the crime of man has been divided between the male- 
factors, as Moses for his false pretences, and the block- 
heads who culpably endorsed them. But are the revela- 
tions of Moses to be discarded ? What revelations ? Did 
Moses ever give revelations? As a religious being, aim- 
ing to be, you cannot talk with truth if you say that. 

Moses, the Jew, only gave the patent laws of Jewism, 
entirely useless and hurtful to the world, at least to the 
monotheist part of it — that is all — which is all by the rights 
of creation, conservation, and revelation. But mosaic laws 
were expedient, to introduce the Saviour. Conservation of 
the universe, by a perfect Creator, saves all patent saviours 
the trouble, and His universal chart has ignored Mr. Moses 
and his whole type. 

Now this is an age that is surpassing that of pagan mind, 
and must justly exclude pagan idolatry. Hitherto the peo- 
ple were too modest in seeking their rights of the autocrat- 
ical conspirators, kings, priests, and affiliations, that make 
the most out of this basely gotten capital. Do these col- 
lusive spoilsmen ask mankind to trust them, and believe 
their bible that is entirely superseded by the absolute de- 
monstration of Deity, by His universal chart, that never 
knew such low miscreants as Moses, Mahommet, Joe Smith? 
As well trust the desperate speculators for millions, without 
responsibility. To take their word, or their paper bible 
word for it, all of the same type, is about equal to taking 
that of any other worthless paper, ruled out by the supreme 
decision of the universe. Who and what are they? The 
companions of kings, the most iniquitous of all counterfeiters 
of people's rights. They pretend to inveigh against the 
use of God's universal, adequate capital, because their spu- 
rious substitute is entirely ruled out. Who, that is of the 
right stamp, could adapt this rickety craziness? These 



124 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

organizations and patent bibles are amenable, as malefac- 
tors, to the only tribunal, the universe-bible and mentality. 
All these, as partisans of polytheism, will terminate, as 
all isms, by an inglorious death. Independent of all these 
satisfactory considerations, what does an enlightened Amer- 
ican wish with hierarchies, that promote their prelates, and 
impart titles of grade and salaries of royal taint? But, 
then, these organizations number such multitudes, and that 
is an important item. 

Biology demonstrates that the mind of mankind can be 
affected to passivity to a very great numerical amount, 
probably one-fifteenth ; and it is likely all churches, as spir- 
itual rappers, may have their full quota of them. This is 
a question that concerns mentality. The American mind 
is elastic and progressive, or has the elements of progression. 
Let it have a fair view of it; only what is right. There 
are many in the world that are incHned to atheistic or poly- 
theistic infidelity, that ought to investigate enough for re- 
moval of the diflSculty, and secure w^hat is absolutely right, 
by the monotheist institutions of God. 



The whole Panorama of Faith- Organizations, — This com- 
prehension alone enables mind to realize all the fatal effects 
of faith incongruities. Their origin dates back to the first 
pagan mind; their strength to the collusion of despotisms 
with superstitious bigotry, endorsed by ruffian spoils-party. 
They all sacrifice to their idol images, and it matters not 
whether country or blood. Wherever mentality turns its 
horoscope, this deadly blast is ever present under such regi- 
mes. The imperial bear garden of Europe at present con- 
firms all this to the disgusting reality. Why can any in- 
telligence, who ought to know much about this matter, ever 
halt at this fatal infidelity? What can they promise them- 
selves, but a participation in that ignoble condition ? Be- 



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hold the fruits seen in tins panorama, even in America, 
where the mormon degeneracy is established as the deadly 
fruit of such criminal germs. 

All is fraudulent stock from such faith-paper. If the 
fraudulent issue of stock be punishable, what ought not the 
fraudulent issue of bible stock, and all the resulting inter- 
ests insure, when mentality has absolute demonstratioii 
that it is a fraudulent issue on the universal monotheist 
stock, that admits of no substitute, the representative of a 
God that permits no proxy? There is no better fixed, 
ascertained fact of revelation in the universe, than that all 
particular bibles are fraudulent issues by fanatical malefac- 
tors. If these faith-pagans ever reason, it is by the instinct 
of self-interest, that they worship. They sacrifice the nobler, 
finer qualities of mind and being, the elevation of which is 
placed in man's own hands, desecrated by ignoble faiths. 



The Booh or Bible that Famishes all Ideas. — What book 
is that, asks the polytheist, as the bigot declares that he 
got all his ideas from the bible of Moses ? The one-idea 
zealot has got to the height of his idolatry, when he wor- 
ships the mosaic image that limits his mind. He is so full 
of prejudices, that he declares that he can only read or take 
that authority for the guide of his life. Can any analyst 
fail to see the raw material for fanatic carnage for all ages, 
when thus placed in the manufacture of papal or imperial 
priests, who claim all the protectorates they can get ? Some 
will even go so far as to ask for the antecedent black-letter 
books, that can contradict the statements of the bible or 
their writers These one-idea tools of priests are gullible, 
fit subjects for receiving the infallibility of a pope, whose 
very position renders him the most fallible of all that gulls. 

But sectarians of all types are thus prepossessed. What, 
then, is the essential difference between the catholics and 
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protestants, all of whom take the kingly mosaic image to 
their worship ? Who, of all the type of faith-organizations, 
are exempt from intolerance and bigotry, their distinguish- 
ing characteristics? Rather than have any organization 
the least tinctured with such ignorance and disposition, let 
it be annihilated by its own inherent weakness. Does the 
world know whence it has erred ? The only book or bible 
that can furnish ideas to mentality or mind, is the universal 
chart of God. To this the religious of the world only can 
devote their best attention and respect, as all else are mis- 
erable plagiaries, whether held by conspiring, imperial, or 
subordinate priests. 

Monotheist institutions are the liberal, adequate endow- 
ments, and are all chartered by the universal living execu- 
tive chart of Deity, for the great family of man. These 
genuine elements of cosmopolitan beneficence give the only 
congeniality of feeling with the monotheist God, mentality- 
faculty, that mentality can truly adore and revere. These 
institutions are the only adequate means to originate una- 
n'mity of feeling, the perfect finer feelings, that make peo- 
ple honest and gentlemanly, the essential need of the world. 



The Monotheist Position can Vindicate its Triumph. 
(Analysis of the Appendix of Baron D'HolbacVs System 
of Nature. — 1. On page 341 he says, ''The motion of 
bodies is a necessary consequence of their essence.'^ This 
position of atheism renders essence antecedent to motion, 
and necessarily independent of it, as '' the motion of bodies 
is a necessary consequence of their essence." This abso- 
lutely demonstrates antecedent adequate causation. 

2. ''Everybody in the universe is in motion" This de- 
monstrates that the universe, the universal essence, was 
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3. ''Action is essential to matter." This demonstrates 
that matter is composite when considered with motion. 

4. ''Motion is inherent in nature, which is the great 
whole, oat of which nothing can exist, and is essential to 
it. Matter moves by its own energy, and possesses proper- 
ties according to which it acts." Nature is universal 
organized matter, that had the antecedent of its organiza- 
tion in adequate causation. All motions, essences, and pro- 
perties are identified with composite universal organization, 
that embraces the whole creation, that moves by communi- 
cated relational energy. 

5. "In attributing the motion of matter to a cause, we 
must suppose that matter itself has come into existence — a 
thing impossible ; for since it cannot be annihilated, how 
can we imagine it to have had a beginning ?" The ante- 
cedent causation of the existence of matter is its conserva- 
tor from universal annihilation or dissolution, and that 
position, essentially, necessarily cause and effect, premises its 
beginning. 

6. "Matter has always been in motion, as motion is a 
consequence of its existence, and existence always supposes 
properties in the existing body." Of course matter has 
always been in motion since its existence, but existence, the 
premise of properties, necessarily refers through organized 
cause and effect to causation. 

7. "If every motion, therefore, be ascribable to a cause, 
and these causes being determined by their nature, essence, 
and properties, we must conclude that they are all neces- 
sary, and that every being in nature, in its given properties 
and circumstances, can only act as it does. Necessity is the 
infallible and constant tie of causes to their effects; and 
this irresistible power, universal necessity, is only a conse- 
quence of the nature of things, in virtue of which the whole 
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certainly came by organization, as her composite elabora- 
tion demonstrates with geological and astronomical evi- 
dence of design. Atheistic necessity is a subsequent ex 
j)ost facto, worthless, therefore, as all e.v post faclos of poly- 
theism. The cause and effect phenomena of nature are 
universal, and therefore leave no vacancy for the ties of 
necessity, which, of course, is nothing more nor less, as she 
is perfectly, absolutely, and demonstrably identified and per- 
sonified with cause and effect. This conclusion is inevita- 
ble, necessary, and absolutely established by Deity, the 
antecedent causation. As necessity is a consequence of 
nature or natural existence, it is blended inseparably with 
the universe that is in abeyance to supreme rule and regu- 
lation. All this is immutably and infallibly true. 

8. Page 343. ''Motion is a property of matter.^' That 
premises a transaction subsequent to existence, if language 
mean what it is intended. It is a vested right. 

34T. ''Nature is but a machine, of which the human 
species makes a part." That premises all as a production, 
all as mechanism of a Supreme Designer. 

353. The Baron says, "Dr. Clarke has adduced the 
strongest arguments which have ever yet been advanced 
in support of the existence of a Deity." 

His propositions may be reduced into twelve heads. 1st. 
"Something has existed from all eternity." The Baron re- 
plies, " Why not matter rather than spirit ?" " That which 
cannot be annihilated necessarily exists : such is matter. 
Matter, therefore, has always existed." 

I reply that that which necessarily exists is subordinate 
to absolute existence, which conserves it from universal 
annihilation. Matter has always existed from universal 
organization, antecedent causation. 

2d. "An independent and unchangeable being has ex- 
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is this being ? Is it independent of its own essence ? No ; 
for it cannot make the beings whom it produces act other- 
wise than according to their given properties." This is 
consummate nonsense. That very property is the very rea- 
son of this perfect power, that makes them act consistently 
to creation. He asks, '^ Is this being unchangeable? No; 
as such a being could neither will nor produce successive 
actions. If this being created matter, there was a time in 
which it had resolved that matter should not exist, and 
another that it should. This being, therefore, cannot be 
unchangeable." If this being could will, he could produce. 
If he could not produce, then he is impotent. But that is 
inconsistent with his antecedent causation, that is perfect 
absolutely. There was no such time antecedent alluded to 
by this atheist, as created orbs produce time and are its 
exponents. The two next propositions do not involve dis- 
cussion. 

5th. ^'A necessarily self-existent being is necessarily 
eternal." This proposition of Dr. Clarke involves a con- 
tradiction, a solecism, making Deity in abeyance to neces- 
sity ! The Baron absurdly wishes to unite this being with 
the universe, but this is neither nature nor matter natu- 
ralized. 

6th. '^The self-existent being must be infinite, and every- 
where present." The Baron exclaims, '' Everywhere pres- 
ent ! No ; matter certainly occupies a part of space, and 
from that part, at least, the divinity must be excluded." 
My reply is, that Deity is represented as vindicated by 
principles. 

7th proposition is obnoxious to the same solecism of 
necessity. ''The necessarily self-existent being must be 
one." The Baron says, '' But can any one deny the exis- 
tence of the universe ?" Its existence is in abeyance neces- 
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8tb. " The self-existent being is necessarily intelligent." 
I say, He is absolute mentality-faculty for the production 
of ideas. Intelligence receives ideas ; hence the last is 
organic existence. Dr. Clarke is amenable for two sole- 
cisms, in giving Deity intelligence that belongs to humanity, 
and necessity that is the property of causation. The first 
is essential to polytheism of Dr. Clarke, who learned of the 
primer of Moses that solecism. Deity reflects only ideas, 
not thoughts and words that emanate from ideas. Deity 
has, therefore, mentality-faculty — man has the intelligence 
of mentality, and is a spirit as a breathing being — 
God is not, cannot be a spirit. 354. But what an ad- 
mission the Baron falls into about nature : after justly 
rebuking Dr. Clarke about intelligence of Deity, he says, 
"since nature contains intelligent beings, why strip her of 
intelligence V^ Where is the intelligence of nature ? If he 
admit it, he adds another more impregnable point to mono- 
theist supremacy, that thus subordinates nature. Nature 
has intelligence; hence is not eternal, but of time duration. 

9th. "The self-existent being is a free agent." The 
Baron says " he is not free.^' As God is the author of all 
that free mind adores, he is the author of all that is essen- 
tial freedom. Any other is not freedom. Hence the 
objection is a subtle sophism. God is demonstrated by 
universal evidence, to the adequate satisfactory conviction 
of mentality, as absolute existence that rules all by virtue 
of his creative freedom, that has perfect precedence and 
perfect free scope. 

10th. " The supreme cause of all things possesses infinite 
power." The Baron objects: "But if man be free to com- 
mit sin, what becomes of God's infinite power?" Princi- 
ples vindicate it. 

11th. ''The author of all things is necessarily wise." A 
solecism. He is absolutely wise, 1 add. 



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12th. ''The supreme cause necessarily possesses every 
moral perfection." Absolutely possesses, is added. In 
contemplating Deity, mentality perceives that atheistical 
necessity is a chimera, and that spirit or intelligence cannot 
be applied to him who governs the whole with the best 
result. 355. Seeing that conventionalism of all kinds are 
incompatible, futile, pernicious to man, mentality has only 
to advance its absolute proofs of God and his monotheist 
institutions, that are irresistible over the pretexts of athe- 
istic necessity and polytheistic faith. God^s providence is 
pre-eminent. What is the universe, but for God's immu- 
tability, the anything that is objectionable to atheists and 
polytheists, whose criticisms fail in essentials ? 

356. ''Upon what is founded God's goodness?" His 
normal jDrincipIes. 358. "The basis of morality must be 
necessity." That is as much innate idea as any of poly- 
theism. Religion, says the Mormon, bids polygamy. If 
this be religion, mind and man have retrograded. The 
sacred laws and principles of- physiology have bent to this 
disgrace of faith-faction. Religion inculcates change of all 
to better government. 

What, asks atheism, is the benefit of Deity? He is of 
universal utility and model. His universal chart gives the 
evidence that produces conviction with certainty. This 
unanimity of mentality will reach mankind, as mentality- 
faculty is the idea only legible to mentality. Pagan mind 
reads pagan idolatry. But why so particular about words? 
Because only one word separates the idea of God from 
atheism; that is absolute. But for that atheism would 
triumph. A word distinguishes religion, or its oifset, con- 
ventionalism, child of faith. Mind needs morality that 
will not only calm and arrest the storms of atheistic and 
polytheistic conventionalism, but absolutely anticipate and 
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thousands of years; now let monotheist institutions have a 
fair test. Both atheists and polytheists deny the true sub- 
lime relations of the universe and God. The polytheist de- 
nies the universal revelations and the proper relations; so 
does the atheist. 360. Neither is compatible with sound 
morality. 

An analysis of all relations is absolutely, not necessarily 
or by faith, essential. This, then, is the adequate reason 
of conventionalism being inadequate. They both ignore 
religious principles, and their advocates compromise their 
conscience, the peace and welfare of nations. Whence I 
impeach imperial and papal autocrats of faith-factions. 
Atheism and polytheism are mere sophisms. 

The God of mentality is the certain God of the universe. 
The more mentality, the more God is appreciated. This, 
then, gives a sublime illustration of immortality. What is 
society without normal principles ? Morality, government, 
laws, religion are guided by their appreciation, if man's chief 
good be consulted. What else is the society of mentahty? 
Behold her monotheist institutions; they have never been 
faithfully executed; partial executions have lessened their 
benefits. 

362. If you listen to nature merely, you get an idea only 
of partial existence. Can the creature organizations meet 
all the demands of the creature ? None less than the Cre- 
ator. With what consistency can nature or remorse ad- 
dress their delinquents, since they will specially plead a 
supreme necessity, and throw their own necessary inconsis- 
tencies in their faces. Atheism and polytheism are deprived 
of all confidence, as they have been vindictive. They die 
of their own poison, and must implicitly yield to monotheist 
vindication. 

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work, in its most material points, has been lauded by Vol- 
taire and D'Alembert as '' more than good sense." It is con- 
sidered an extraordinary work of atheism — one of the most 
** terrible." Does Voltaire, then, as atheist, endorse it in 
its terror ? In his Preface, p. viii., as abundantly elsewhere, 
the Baron speaks of ''the religions of the earth," and to 
this the reader's best attention is directed as utterly un- 
tenable. There is no such thing; all are faith-organizations. 
I premise this most distinctly as adverse to much of his 
dissertations against the inconsistencies of polytheism. I 
quote this lengthy passage from p. xi. as essential: 

" To discover the true principles of morality, men have 
no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They have 
need only of common sense. They have only to commence 
with themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to con- 
sult their visible interests, to consider the objects of society, 
and of the individuals who compose it, and they Will easily 
perceive that virtue is advantageous and vice disadvanta- 
geous to such beings as themselves. Let us persuade men 
to be just, beneficent, moderate, sociable; not because such 
conduct is demanded by the gods, but because it is pleasure 
to men. Let us advise them to abstain from vice and crime; 
not because they will be punished in the other world, but 
because they will suffer for it in this. There are, says a 
great man, Montesquieu, means to prevent crimes, and these 
means are punishments; there are means to reform manners, 
and these means are good examples." 

Evidently this defines the position of the preceding quo- 
tation. Mankind must have a proper standard as model, 
and they cannot reach that short of Deity. They cannot 
comprehend the whole question of vital existence — cannot 
translate the universal revelation of an adequate antece- 
dent, without the whole sentence of production and repro- 
duction. Common sense is very well, but is it to be atheis- 
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tic, conventional ? Persuasion is not essential when normal 
education takes precedence, and must come by principles of 
the highest order — not mere pleasure, but duty — not merely 
to mind, but progressive mentality — not mere dogmatism of 
this or that ism, but to all appreciable science. Morality 
is isolated, unless it embrace the best consummation of nor- 
mal principles that constitute religion, because it embraces 
all practical comprehension that is organic, not faith-organi- 
zations. The means of Montesquieu, as quoted, to prevent 
crimes, is not by punishments, as that is only partial and 
the least part; it is the institution of all essentials, as pre- 
mised, as good examples cannot be originally reached, or 
reach others effectually, except by the full comprehension of 
universal principles. There is a void without religion and 
God, that cannot explain or fulfill the mighty government 
of man, who absolutely needs the model. 



On the Idea of a God — (p. 6). — It is very difficult to find 
Baron D'Holbach's right position for monotheist discussion, 
as he has expended so much of his views on polytheists. 

He begins: '' The principles of every religion are founded 
upon the idea of a God.'' This portrays for himself and 
polytheists the doctrine of a pagan age, namely, faith-or- 
ganization substituted for religion. I premise that no man 
or set of men ever founded religion; there is but one, and 
that is as normal as principles. I premise this essential,, 
invariable point. He then says: ''Now, it is impossible to 
have true ideas of a being wiio acts upon none of our sen- 
ses. All our ideas are representations of sensible objects. 
What, then, can represent to us the idea of God, which is 
evidently an idea without an object V Adequate causa- 
tion presents us that true, very positive idea from cause and 
effect — this is the archetype; and reason, the very best of 
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idea, an absurdity, but the mighty triumph won by religious 
principles, not conventional doctrines, through the sublimity 
of reason. The Baron almost spoils the subject by inclin- 
ing to the crude obliquities of polytheists and pagans, as 
when he says '^ every principle is the result of reason,'^ he 
goes on the supposition that man founds principles. What 
an idea! Man has only appreciation thereof. This Al- 
mighty Being gives universal action on our senses, hence 
the idea of God is universal to reason of mentality. 

Page 1. He argues with cold speculation that there is 
no relation between an infinite God and finite being. 
The very strongest of an adequate causation and creature, 
the very best of all feeling of paternity to its offspring. 

Page t. ^' Where there can be no relation, there can be 
no union, communication, or duties." 

The whole universe is one of relations; is relational to its 
antecedent as adequate causation, that elevates him above 
(p. 6) ^'the nature of God," as his existence is absolute to 
any nature. What other is more potent, magnificent, mu- 
nificent, the foundation for more universal benefits? Thus, 
in saying God is infinite, that establishes all religion for 
the finite being or creature. The idea of infinity is to men- 
tality the idea of model, archetype, and all that perfection 
furnishes, as less could not create or conserve with all the 
blessings that man can seek. The Baron continues, ''Thus 
the idea of (infinite) God can never enter the human mind." 
The idea of such a God is the only one to fill mentality of 
his mind with the profoundest reverence, graditude, and 
adoration. The Baron uses much special pleading on his 
negative positions, that do not require much attention. 
It is the easiest thing, a natural result of reason for reli- 
gion, to follow after the right view of Deity in causation. 
He wishes to make all available capital out of the difference 
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it all amount to ? Mentality-faculty created mentality, the 
most pervasive of all universal faculties. The first stands 
in the sublimest relationship of paternity to the last. His 
chapter '^ On the origin of religion," p. 8, applies more or 
less to faith-organizations, that mislead him and polytheists. 
It is useless to copy the whole book to confute it, as much 
of it is his discourses on his positions. 

Page 10 as 6, nearly. ^'The existence of a God cannot 
be proved."' I wish not to repeat much of this attack on 
polytheists, whose weakness he details. Page 11. ''To 
convince me of the existence of that Being, it is necessary 
to prove to me that it is impossible that such a Being 
should not exist.'' The good Baron says, ''That which ex- 
ists necessarily is that whose non-existence implies a con- 
tradiction!" But is that the position? Necessity is the 
certainty of effect dependent on cause — necessarily belongs 
to Deity's creations. Not to him, my good sir! you seem 
not to understand your subject. God's non-existence is 
impossible, as his existence is absolute. What can touch 
that, good Baron ? 

God exists absolutely, not necessarily; this confutes al! 
atheistical vagaries. The universe exists necessarily, not 
absolutely. Necessity is one of atheistical dogmatisms,^ 
as bad as polytheistics. The very moment a Deity is sat- 
isfactorily proved, demonstrated to the world, all polythe- 
ists and atheists are completely dead. The Baron continues 
in the last sentence of this chap., p. 12: "Every religion 
has hitherto been founded only upon what is called, in logic, 
begging the question ; it takes things for granted, and then 
proves by suppositions instead of principles." This is pre- 
eminently as applicable to atheists as polytheists. Mono- 
theists have been modest. They have not urged their or- 
ganizations, nor have they done justice to their thoughts 
by words and deeds. It is to be hoped that a returning 
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^^ S'pirituaJity of GodP — This is not monotheist by any 
means. It is a solecism, nonsense. This is the most ridic- 
ulous contradiction. A spirit is a subordinate to matter, 
the atmosphere. The God of absolute existence, a breath- 
ing being of atmosphere, his own creation! This is a nul- 
lity. Hence there can be no more capital for spiritual 
manifestations. "' Othello's occupation is gone." The met- 
aphysical, spiritual God is a nonentity. How came any ra- 
tionalist to miss the fallacy of this idea? This is as great 
a solecism as the ''nature of God," advanced by the Baron. 
The Baron says, p. 12, that ''Metaphysics teach us that 
God is a pure spirit." Now monotheist ics teach that he 
is pure mentality-faculty. Pagans believe in spirits, devils, 
and such. What is the authority of polytheists worth? 
But worthless as all are, they pretend in their discomfiture 
that none have the idea of a God except through their po- 
sition, which, if not adopted, makes the recusants atheists. 
What justice or intelligence do they thus manifest, to be 
so ignorant of the monotheist universe of mind and matter ? 
Monotheists can have no idea of polytheistic metaphysics, 
or multiplicity of Gods, triune or any number. Mentality 
can only know one, and that by the unity of mentality. 

But how much wiser is the Baron's appeal, page 13, of 
^'universal existence from the bosom of matter" — "which 
we see, act, move, communicate, motion, and incessantly 
generate." Both the polytheistic spirituality and the athe- 
istic nature are nonentities. The last is derivative and re- 
lational — not the primary antecedent, adequate causation. 

Is atheistic nature adequate? Not for production; that 
gives a basis for reproduction. Cause and effect cease if 
there be no causation, as that necessarily gives the motive 
power. All rationality concentrates in this adequate power. 
Does it reside or abide in muscle or mentality? The action 
ou matter premises the universe due to causation. The 
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nature of atheists is metaphysical, as the polytheistic spirit- 
uality. Then analysts must look at the highest appreciation. 

13th page. Tbey, of course, cannot adopt the ''mind" of 
"spirituality.'' The atheists are shocked about this "na- 
ture" and havins: "no hands." Thev need not trouble 
themselves about any such of faith-organizations. 

Monotheists only adore pure mentality-faculty as the per- 
fect being of adequate motive power. What is the action 
of mentality upon matter? This gives the idea of a model. 
What is the resulting action of mind, that is reason, upon 
matter ? Is it a successful executory act ? How does a 
reasonable being act? His reason directs his will to exe- 
cution by his organization. Then consistency of causation 
decides in ratio for the sublimity of reason and its author's 
resources, whose power-faculty is identified as one of his 
elements. Now it is not mind that is human that analysts 
scan, but mentality-faculty, a unity concentration of all the 
divine elements, adequate for perfect ideas and their exe- 
cution. Mentality cannot translate it as organization that 
pertains to creation. Experience demonstrates the vast 
progressive powers of mentality, just using part of Deity's 
capital, that enables it to annihilate space and time by the 
electrical telegraph. What, then, must be the faculty of 
the Creator-mentality, that excels the sublimest conceptions 
of human mentality? Truly is atheism inadequate for analy- 
sis of this mighty c^uestion. What does the preaching on 
its assumptions avail ? 

Page 15. "Must we not know, certainly, that he (God) 
exists ?" Rational minds cannot now miss knowing it, if 
they know what cause and effect define. The Infinite em- 
braces all finite; most of this book embraces the inconsis- 
tencies of polytheists, who prove no God at all, as they 
prove no book but political machinery codes, whose faith- 
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Page 18. The Baron says, ''all children are atlieists;" 
^'they have no idea of God." Then they have no idea of 
reason, for the last necessarily determines in a supreme an- 
tecedent causation. Can they, do they have an adequate 
rational idea of the cause and effect, and not have of caus- 
ation ? If so, then is there an anomaly at once. Is there 
mind, that has reason, that cannot carry out the chain to 
the first link ? 

Rational minds appreciate the true ideas of right and 
wrong, on the principles of causation. They cannot escape 
the idea of a God in causation; it matters not about names. 
This proves too much atheistical preaching in the Baron's 
positions. Children, all mankind are born monotheists, 
and have monotheist institutions as their proper capital for 
mind's true education. They have to be made otherwise 
by doctrines of pagan minds that do no honor to human 
existence. Polytheists, the conspirators for mercenary and 
ambitious selfishness, seek to pervert born monotheists to 
their insidious, perfidious doctrines, even if they make all 
atheists. 

The gods of polytheists can only be looked at through 
their innate ideas — an absurdity in the very face of truthful, 
faithful experience. The God of monotheists is positively 
known through normal principles, while the God of athe- 
ists is absorbed by his functionary, nature. 

To take the Baron on his ov/n position about children, 
can they get any valuable ideas of the ''power of nature," 
(page 21,) ''the action of natural causes," without reason, 
honest reason? How, then, could they have been born 
atheists ? They are simply in an immature state of mind — 
too much the case with too many grown-up children. Can 
born monotheists forsake their noblest birthright for the 
tory flag of collusive cliques of kings, priests, and affiliations ? 

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do not imply a secret mover, but self-motion." These 
''motions of matter" are the result of reciprocal motion, 
not of self-motion. Under this imposing caption the Baron 
says, ''But the universe is a cause ;" then does he not con- 
tradict himself in the next sentence, when he says, "The 
world has always been ; its existence is necessary." This 
is conclusively suicidal, as causation is implied absolutely, 
for necessity refers to the obligation of effect to cause. 

" But the universe is a cause." Then it should be abso- 
lute. In the next sentence, "Nature, whose essence is visi- 
bly to act and produce," the author evidently betrays mis- 
conception. The function of nature is not production, but 
reproduction. Nature is neither dead nor without power, 
but all such is delegated, (p. 23,) "that matter acts of 
itself." This is a solecism. The action of matter is mu- 
tual, as proved by the exposure of phosphorus to the air, 
when it quickly takes fire. "The necessary existence" of 
the world premises matter dependent on cause and effect; 
that is, motion is not independent, but relational and in 
abeyance to causation. What incongruity is visible in this 
chapter! "The universe is a cause;" yet apart, the world 
has a necessary existence. That is, the existence of the 
world is absolute as production, yet the world has neces- 
sary existence — the cause and effect state of reproduction. 
Absolute and necessary existence, production and repro- 
duction, are not convertible terms of one and the same 
state of existence, but evince the solecism of the author. 
They belong to two departments — the first an antecedent, 
and subsequent; that is positive. 

Page 2T. "The universe is the cause of all effects." 
This' is a solecism. It is a phenomenon of causes and 
effects. It is not an isolated cause; if so, it would be 
an absolute cause, exempt from all effects. It is the 
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evince reproduction. He defines, '' nature is a word used 
to denote the immense assemblage of beings, various matter, 
infinite combinations, and diversified motions that we be- 
iiold. All bodies, organized or unorganized, are necessary 
effects of certain causes." Then nature is the universe. 
It means birth or reproduction, all phenomena of cause 
and effect. Who can separate the two last? The atheist? 
He acts unlawfully and against principles. The universe 
is an organized body, composed of universal effects and 
causes, both necessary as its ''existence is necessary." 
(Page 28.) ''The order of the universe does not prove the 
existence of a God." All universal matter is rightly gov- 
erned by principles, cause and effect, that prove the con- 
sistency of adequate causation, a God ; if there were not 
this order, then adequate causation, the existence of a God, 
would be a nullity. 

The Baron says, (p. 30) "Intelligence, adoration, and 
all human qualities are incompatible with God." I say, 
the God of absolute existence cannot be invested v/ith 
" human qualities." It is very childish to consider him 
needing " organs" or anything of his own creation. The 
polytheist pagan makes God a spirit, the atheist pagan 
organizes him: which commits the greatest outrage on 
mentality? iMuch of this idle captious preaching would 
have been negatived in the Baron^s own mind, had he un- 
derstood his subject, "that God cannot have what we call 
virtues." God is the creator of all — man appreciates them 
as principles. God is their author for man. God is a 
perfect being, that typifies all virtues, principles, religion, 
as the standard model for man. 

Page 32. "The universe, providence, immutability." The 
monotheist regards the universe as the universal exhibition 
of divine wisdom, 111 erality, and supreme generosity, that 
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sal good by the most economical means, producing a multi- 
plicity of results by the least organic expenditures. Whilst 
the chief good of man is pre-eminent, a universe of exist- 
ences has been vouchsafed to render it worthy of its Creator 
and all his creatures. To have confined its sterility to man 
would have been unworthy of mentality-faculty, who has 
endowed it with universal munificence. It is a perfect uni- 
verse as presented, for perfect man and creation to enact 
their universal functions. (P. 33.) The questions of the 
author have the malignity of atheism against all views of a 
supreme. Now, it is clear that the magnanimity of Deity 
cannot be more universally exhibited than by the creation 
of a universe for progressive developement of universal 
good. The revelations of the universe go to demonstrate 
all this. The Being of absolute existence might have had 
a negative position where all was sterility, but he has 
exhibited a positive universal demonstration of positive 
good. Who is it that misses the object? The perfect 
God ? None but an atheist could suppose it, and that only 
in the absence of mentality. Is it not the atheist, then, 
that misses the appreciation, when untaught by monotheist 
light? What could be more satisfactory to the worthy 
author of this mighty universe, than the perfect conscious- 
ness of doing all that the perfection of mentality-faculty 
has accomplished ? What says the floating atheist in his 
fourth oppugnation? ''God, notwithstanding all his en- 
deavors, is not glorified, but on the contrary all the reli- 
gions in the world represent him as perpetually offended ; 
their sole object is to reconcile sinful, ungrateful, rebellious 
man with his angry God." All this merely exposes the 
degraded pagan faith-organizations, that are never, by any 
means, religion, that belongs to no such codes. Religion 
is indivisible, a unity analogous to the unity of its Creator, 
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frailties. It is to be deeply regretted that the Baron 
should have lost his valuable time in such idle dissertations. 
Could he have ever appreciated the sublime perfection of 
monotheist institutions, he surely had never thus committed 
himself. That God is infinite, the universal document 
attests, and as his elaboration, he, as an honorable being, 
has all relations to effect the perfect perpetuity. 

Is the Baron capable of true consistent logic, when he 
compares man to God, as the ant to the gardener ? There 
is no analogy, as there is no creative affinity ! Analogy 
rests on logic that rests on reason — avaXo^o^ — according 
to logic. Could man be more happy than he is, on the 
circumstances of creation? Who, but Deity, the allwise 
Creator, can decide it? He has decided it, unquestion- 
ably, most justly. He has done his part. If there be any 
failure, it is man's. No matter what is said, man is a per- 
fect man and on a perfect earth. The best logician can- 
not gainsay this. 

The premises already established authorize me in declar- 
ing the Baron's sermons on p. 34 as malignant libels on 
Providence. Providence is justified in his universal provis- 
ion; all atheistic libels on such cut with a double-edged 
sword on their own nature. In what an inextricable di- 
lemma does their sophistry engulph them! The very basis 
of governing all matter by fixed principles is railed at, when 
that is the only conservative of universal consistency ! 
Where can there be a stronger proof of atheistic criticism 
run crazy ? What the pagan mind attributes to malignity 
of Providence, is due to all the series of cause and effect. 
If a voyager embark in a crazy ship, and is lost by extraor 
dinary storms, ca'n any sane mind refer it to less than the 
imbecile preparations of mind? It is the necessity of its 
nature to get out of its pagan state as quick as possible, to 
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that will put mankind in their functional rights. This is 
evidence that the animal part of man is only subsidiary to 
his mental, and to elevate the last is the mighty work of 
his being. He is not to assume, but to act consistently 
with the religious laws of his existence. Who are the false 
advisers, polytheistic or atheistic, that will only take a part 
of the universe, and libel the Creator with the balance? 
Let the world of volumes be written against Providence, 
and they weigh naught against Him that ruleth all univer- 
sal matter immutably by principles. E^ery imaginary evil 
is the necessary result of this universal axiom — principles 
represent and vindicate Him universally, and correct all 
evils. If principles were mutable, then the accusation would 
be tenable; but as it is, all is pretext otherwise. Page 39. 
*''The universe can be only what it is;'- still it is a ''cause!" 
''These effects are necessary." Can they be adequately 
right in a universe that is a cause, and not in a universe 
that has adequate causation? What is the essential differ- 
ence to the race of mankind ? There is a distinction with- 
out a difference. Necessity, that typifies cause and effect, 
results in both, repels the sophistry of the atheist, who is 
vindicative for nature, the functionary, but vindictive in- 
consistently against the Creator! He says, "In a world 
where everything is necessary, a God who remedies nothing, 
who leaves things to run in their necessary course, is he 
anything bat destiny, or necessity personified? It is a deaf 
and useless God who can effect no change in general laws, 
to which he is himself subject. Of what importance to ijie 
is the infinite povN'er of a being who will do very little in 
my favor? Where is the infinite goodness of a being in- 
different to my happiness? Of what service to me is the 
favor of a being who, being able to do me an infinite good, 
does not do me even a finite one?" 

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necessary, universally dependent on cause and effect, to rem- 
edy everything by necessary cause and effect ? He destiny 
or necessity personified ? Nature is this, his functionary, as 
his existence is absolute to all such. How, then, can he be 
deaf or useless, when he has given all universal senses and 
usefulness? He effect no change in general laws? Why 
should he alter his universe ? To please supercilious athe- 
ists, that know not what they talk of? He subject to gen- 
eral laws, when He instituted them for the universe, fixed 
and immutable? Of what importance to man is the infi- 
nite power of this Being? Of universal importance. He 
do very little in man's favor, when he has done him a 
universal favor? Is the infinite goodness of this Being 
rightly called in question as indifferent to individual happi- 
ness, when he has made universal provision therefor ? Of 
what service to man is the favor of a being who, being 
able to do me an infinite good, does not do me even a finite 
one, when he has created you a universal good? 

43. "You say, also, that he (God) is immutable, although 
it was in time that he began and ceased to exercise His 
power, like the inconstant beings of this world.'^ Was 
there ever a cessation of God's thoughts ? If so, this cavil 
is valid. I feel confident that the Baroj did not under- 
stand what time was, else he could not have so committed 
himself. Time is only the exponent of the revolution of 
universal orbs, and cannot invalidate the sublime munifi- 
cence thereof, or Deity's immutability, as he created it. 
Surely, when immutability of qualities is sustained, it is 
idle to advance a pointless nonentity. If Deity could, as 
mentality-faculty, have aught vacated in thought as a part 
of his entity, then this objection would apply; but that is 
utterly impossible. Tiiere can be no cessation as to men- 
tality-faculty, and hence no mutability. There is too much 
special pleading now, since the bullion questions have been 
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attended to. The whole sum and substance of man's best 
state, being questionable, can be met in this one question — 
could the universe be under better economy than by that of 
cause and effect? Let the atheist caviller reply satisfactorily. 

God is not only universally good, but just. We can only 
truly estimate Deity but through the circumstances of the 
universe. Can matter be more rightly, justly, better gov- 
erned ? How can it ? Since principles govern it, immuta- 
bly right, (p. 45,) "one animal, or mite, that suffers, fur- 
nishes invincible arguments against Divine Providence and 
its infinite goodness. '• No atheistic innate ideas can take 
precedence of universal principles and facts. This is a dog- 
matism. The atheist seeks not to create or produce a 
world, but cavil it in existence. Does he know correctly 
the essence of universal existence, to pronounce this pretext 
of criticism? Universal facts convict him. Is this state 
one of perpetual vitality? If it were, cause and effect 
could not prevail. No principles, but those of cause and 
effect, can make a universe, and they involve all the facts 
developed. Now, to say that under them no animal or 
mite should suffer, betrays an utter ignorance and reckless- 
ness of principles that rule matters rightly. Now, as mat- 
ter is ruled rightly by principles, as no one of sense and" 
reason can deny, then he contradicts himself with complete 
confusion when he affirms that when ''one animal or mite 
suffers, that it furnishes invincible arguments against Divine 
Providence and its infinite goodness. '^ 

4t. "Religion and supers^tition essentially the same!" 
says the Baron. Religion is the consummation of principles 
that are created, while superstition is a stupid fear of gods 
predicted on men's pagan notions. Wonderful analyst is the 
Baron. Enlightened monotheists see religion due the uni- 
versal antecedent, as effect is referable to its cause; while M 
superstition is the innate ideal idolatry of pagan minds. " 



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These are the theological gods of poljtheists, that ''inspire 
aversion," and produce ''a tissue of palpable contradictions." 

Principles that are perfect honor God, and exalt mental- 
ity to best merit. Man is a perfect man, that has an exal- 
tation to accomplish compared to his model. God has given 
him the universal provision, that he is religiously to elabo- 
rate. The Baron has descanted much on the perverse non- 
sense of pagan polytheistics; about evil as if God created 
it. There is no such entity, as it is the negative of good, 
as cold is the negative of caloric. 

Man is not at the tribunal of priests' model, and there- 
fore not amenable to vrhat most of the book is brought to 
bear upon. Monotheist education teaches that mind must 
progress, from its universal model of science, and reject all 
the errors of pagan dogmatism. The nature of man is per- 
fect, as man is a perfect man; he could not be man, unless 
he be as he is. God never created such a being as Satan; 
priests of pagan mind created him. God never created an 
evil principle; 'tis utterly ridiculous. If the devil be the 
chief of sinners, it would be the supreme of magnanimity 
for Deity to pardon him as a creature. The devil is only 
a pagan caricature of cause and effect. 

Page 60. The Baron assails Providence for diseases, 
famines, wars, earthquakes, &c. Providence is exempt, 
on the short-sighted basis of an atheistical universe, from 
its censurable criticism. Wars are an antagonism of prin- 
ciple rejected by mentality. The comprehensive question 
arises, is this God pledged to create vitality perpetual on 
earth, and blessed with all enjoyments of pacific luxury, or 
is he the God of the universe, for its comprehensive total- 
ity? As he is the last, the earthquake is the result of tri- 
unipliant principles that rule matter for universal conserva- 
tion. If man was exempt from the necessity of cause and 
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Deity with chart in hand. As it is, he is the creature of 
universal circumstances, and it is utterly impossible to have 
them, as far as the universe is concerned, otherwise. This 
is monotheist philosophy. Atheists and polytheists must 
recollect that the model subject is that of the universe, 
and analysis must not detach a part of its proportions, but 
take it all in all, just as it is. P. 62. '^ Man's free will is* 
a chimera," says this atheist. Man's free will is one of his 
noblest faculties of mentality, elevated to the best appre- 
ciation of religious principles, says the monotheist. The 
liberty of free will is on principles of the creation — the 
grace of principles. The Baron says ''that man is necessi- 
tated in all his actions." P. 63. All that is in it is, that 
man acts under the munificent blessings of cause and effect, 
the potent levers of all his actions. His legitimate normal 
free will is on normal principles. Why is it otherwise? 
Perverted education has perverted it, and prevents him 
from being the elevated being that monotheist capital en- 
titles him to. There is but one way that is right, and 
mentality triumphs therein by its rightful fulfillment of the 
monotheist premises. 

The Baron in his first sentence in the premises says, 
"Theologians repeatedly tell us that man is free, while all 
their principles conspire to destroy his liberty!" How much 
has the monotheists to do for the polytheist theologians? 
What "principles" have they ? It is polytheistic doctrines; 
and then the Baron attacks successfully, as in innate ideas, 
conventionalities considered by the monotheist. When I 
take this view, both atheist and polytheist are nonplused, 
as it is not Mahommetan or Christian faiths, but God's 
principles that rule, under which all are born monotheists, 
and cannot act otherwise when they act rightly. 

Atheistic sophistry is rampant in page 63; as man was 
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them by the normal principles of vitality, to which they 
must conform. Free will is normal action of mentality. 
Why does a free man reason ? To elicit this very position. 
Did not our illustrious ancestors of ^76 exercise this na- 
tional free will in the highest evidence of normality? All 
our judgment is to act thus, the right religious basis. And 
this is the highest evidence of a religious government on 
earth. 

Man is free to follow reason, that is his free will, and 
follow principles of reason. Why the punishment of crimi- 
nals, if there be no free will? This premises its acknowl- 
edgment, and admission of a model standard to produce 
its right direction. P. 68. ''The world is a necessary 
agent." Then, if necessary, it is made up of causes and 
elFects, not a cause. Just so of all the parts of the uni- 
verse, and the whole is only equal to all its parts together. 
P. 61. ''God himself is not free;" he acts "necessarily." 
The Baron says, "Not if his existence be absolute, as 
monotheists believe and prove. The word necessary does 
not pertain to the essence of Deity,: as this indicates cause 
and effect identified in one and the same existence, which 
is a perfect solecism as to Deity, who is perfect cause inde- 
pendent of effect, identity; not if omnipotent, as his facul- 
ties demonstrate." So much for atheistic confusion of 
ideas. The Baron has, as atheists, a foggy idea of neces- 
sity, their great resort. That is only cause and effect, the 
creatures of Deity. Atheists are thus bewildered in their 
own atheistic fogs, that are totally inextricable, inexplicable, 
and irremediable. God is invariable and immutable, be- 
cause necessity compels him ! That is an atheistic sole- 
cism. Our actions prove the best prayers to have him for 
the model; that is the manly use of Godly religion. Man 
is, then, free to do good, not evil, by universal grace of 
principles. This is man's liberty, no more. 
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The wisdom of mentality proves that man has much to 
amend in mind's faculties, to reach universal fruition. With 
atheists the rule of nature is their one idea, or part of an 
idea, and all else is unjust ! The atheists are in a miser- 
able category by their own injustice. They place it on 
nature as the author, if she be the only responsibility. All 
their supposed censures of Deity are those of nature ! Ex- 
istence of man is a necessity. It is endowed with mental- 
ity, chief of universal existence. The great law of human 
developement shows, from the embryo to its mentality, a 
vast and mighty elevation of being. What will be the 
developement from mentality up? And what a mighty 
change in all the relations of mentality, by a rightful 
change from the faith-organizations of pagan tyrants and 
bigots to the models of a monotheist Creator ! 

Mentality is the only faculty that transcends the uni- 
verse, gan ascend to the causator, and interrogate his 
qualities. Its created function, object, and purpose were 
to solve the mighty problem of its being — that of the uni- 
verse, that of immortality. How can it reach these with- 
out adequate functions— the very endowments in question? 
This is the mighty function to harmonize nature. 

It is positively certain that mentality, pervading matter, 
is a faculty supreme to matter, an organized element of 
thoughts, the highest analogous to mentality-faculty. Its 
organization must be analogous to its state of existence or 
being. Without a future life, immortality and happiness, 
the mighty problem of the universe is ever unsolved, the 
mighty munificence is lost upon mentality, that just lives to 
know the vast void left unfilled. 

What begets purity of morals? The utility of futurity 
without benefit to clergy. What benefit could be claimed 
from them?. The least said the better, by them. Even 
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enjoyments based on mentality, analogous to mentality- 
faculty, that is absolutely eternal and happy. Analogy 
pledges the logic of reason. This is confirmed to every 
good mind, that knows that all physical, social, mental, 
moral, and religious relations absolutely require the model 
of mentality-faculty on this earth for harmonious to sublime 
government. 

What, on the contrary, is the atheistic alternative? 
The oblivious grave of the universal mass! Mentality has 
had its beginning, its existence. Shall that be annihi- 
lated ? Can anything be ? What was the necessity of its 
creation? That alone determines the question. Did not 
absolute grace create it ? Is it not universal fruit, to be 
plucked by mentality? We shall pursue this idea here- 
after. 

Page 96. The Baron says, '^ All religious principles are 
a work of pure imagination." It is the same exploJM 
idea of pagan faith-organizations, as "all religious princi- 
ples" are Deity's work, not man's. It is very essential 
for the monotheist thus to meet these repeated libels. 
D'Holbach may be an extraordinary writer, but neverthe- 
less he, as all atheists and polytheists, is an extraordinary 
sophist. 

Polytheists have added the weight of their influence to 
atheism, as they affect that the world must be atheistic, if 
polytheism be untenable; and atheists have endorsed the 
last as most potent, after theirs ! 

Page 97. The Baron affirms that *'God is a chimera," 
as contradictory and irreconcilable qualities are attributed 
to him by every religion upon earth." We see the full 
force of making the author responsible for substituting 
religion for the world incongruous faith-organizations. If 
one thing is certain, it is the unity of religion affirming 
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Theology of innate ideas is contradictory. Why, Baron ? 
From the most obvious reasons. Each God emanates, not 
from universal authority, but by clique authority. What are 
less objectionable ? The atheistic or polytheistic absurdities, 
chimeras, enigmas, dogmas, metaphysics, mysteries, making 
nature god, or many gods ? Monotheist model revelation 
is of the only authority for facts — the universe. What it 
does not allow is not monotheist. Hence there can be but 
one uniformity — unity. Keligion cannot be invented while 
faith-organizations are for spoils, and excite the hatred, con- 
tempt of their fellows. 

The language of religion, like the universe, has but one 
language, while faith-organizations have a multiplicity. 
What a pity that this distinction could not have been made 
to pagan minds. If principles are intelligible, religion is. 
Bi|j| priests do not so understand it. No, indeed! They 
can only understand the spoils faith. 104. The monotheist 
admits the God of the universe, because absolutely demon- 
strated, from which there is no escape. It is not faith, 
when universal facts decide, the position. Mentality cannot = 
resist the conclusion, nor reverse the absolute decision. 
What, then, can polytheists and atheists say? Nothing of 
any value; all is idle preaching. The atheist can weave 
his sophisms, but they are impotent. 

There is nothing more certain than that an absolute an- 
tecedent has caused the universe, a universal phenomenon 
of cause and effects, that annihilate atheists and polytheists. 
That matter is ruled right by principles, confutes all the 
jargons of atheists and polytheists combined. Refute that, 
and then you are entitled to be heard. Show one evil prin- 
ciple, and you upset the universe of facts that absolutely 
prove a God. 

Of course all painters representing their own ideas, as 
they presume their absurdities, would have them unlike; 



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but artists delineate one object more or less alike, according 
to their relative ability. The universe, the universal cause 
and effect existence, represents one permanent idea of God, 
as its adequate causator. 113. What has this to do with 
priests, who affect the absurdity of innate ideas ? Atheism 
and polytheism result from a superficial examination of their 
subject by pagan minds. 

There is but one religion to decide upon, and that teaches 
that there is but one revelation of its author through the 
universe — the absolutely essential, the only model. Any 
other assassinates the character of God malignantly. The 
universe is the ideal, mouth and work piece of Deity, that 
produces its universal language to all minds, a universal 
equity to all time. 

159. ''Notwithstanding the bloody tragedies which reli- 
gion often acts,'' religion is entirely innocent. Baron, of 
bloody tragedies; all such are the acts of sanguinary faith- 
organizations. God, he says, is the author of disorder. 
What a libel on universal principles, that vindicate order of 
God. ni. ''To found morality upon a God'' is to recur 
to normal principles of the univeijs^al legislator. Upon no 
"whims of a sect, a faction, a party," good Baron. The 
voice of a priest is not in it. He is the last being to be 
heard in all this, for his innate ideas will curse it with a 
bitter cause. 

Men should never overlook the sophisticated and hypo- 
critical state of mind left the world by the reign of organ- 
ized faiths. The theological antagonisms of such are most 
amenable to censure, as blood-thirsty and cruelly vindictive. 
188. "Morality, or the science of duties, is acquired only 
by the study of man, and of what is relative to man." This 
premises customs or manners as part, when (184) "he has 
the greatest interest in meriting the approbation, esteem, 
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abstaining from everything by which he may incur the cen- 
sure, contempt, and resentment of society." The ^' Good 
Sense" of the Baron is terrible, as Yoltaire and D'Alem- 
bert state, but monotheist sense alone decides it unjust and 
unrighteous, untenable. Atheism, as polytheism, is, then, 
utterly untenable. 



Review of Baron UHolhach^s ''System of Nature,'^ or 
^^The Laws of the Moral and Physical World.^^ — Monothe- 
ists must consider that to leave out mental, social, and reli- 
gious laws, presents an organic defect. But let us do the 
amplest justice to this able atheist, whose ''System of IN'a- 
ture has never been answered, because it is unanswerable," 
says his publisher — and, according to Henry Lord Brough- 
am, ^' There is no book of an atheistical description which 
has ever made a greater impression than the famous ' Sys- 
teme de la J^ature,'" quoting the publisher's advertisement. 
Chap. i. ''Man is the work of nature; he exists in nature; 
he is submitted to her laws; he cannot deliver himself from 
them; nor can he step beyond them, even in thought." " It 
is in vain his mind woum spring forward beyond the visible 
world; an imperious necessity always compels his return. 
For a being, formed by nature, and circumscribed by her 
laws, there exists nothing beyond the great whole of which 
he forms a part, of which he experiences the influence," 
says the Baron. The monotheist joins issue: Man is part 
and portion, just that much and no less, of nature. Did he 
form himself? Xo. He as nature is reproduction, subject to 
the laws of nature's existence. As a phenomenon of cause 
and effect, he has to step beyond reproduction, and his 
thought carries him beyond all nature, birth, or reproduc- 
tion, to production — the causation — antecedent causator. 
What is this "imperious necessity," this atheistic dogma, 
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pels him to reverse the Baron's assumption, and claim that 
part that has created the productive germs, and the very 
laws of nature's existence. This position is a certainty, 
one of universal necessity and rule of nature, his own ere* 
ated reproductive condition, that gives him means to ap- 
preciate a Being of entire perfect sujoreme faculty. This 
enables him to combat all the innate-idea dogmatisms and 
delusion of atheists and polytheists, and establish his sub- 
limest deeds, the proper regard for physical, mental, social, 
moral, and religious laws of his being, relational to the nor- 
mal principles. '' But is not this organization itself the 
work of nature ?-' Organization is the state of reproduc- 
tion; universal nature is the exponent of universal causes 
and effects, their personification, that cannot ignore their 
antecedent causation. Nature is the universal functionary, 
concentration of universal phenomena of causes and effects, 
under .the perfect regulation of its perfect conservator, who 
eonsummated universal consummation. The chief of all is 
man, that must avail himself by comprehension of his whole 
relations, to do justice to himself, nature, and its Creator — 
his revelation and conservation. Less than this is veriest 
abuse of mentality. Why have all minds, all nations failed 
in its noblest evidence, civilization, but from violence and 
neglect of their physical, mental, social, moral, and religious 
relations? They have effected much, but most of it has 
exploded in a pagan regime, a pretext of faith-organizations 
for religion, that shames them to this day before the bril- 
liant light of their universal charter, the grace of Deity for 
liberty, mentality, religion and happiness. Intellectual free- 
men alone can secure this, their perpetual charter; any oth- 
ers ignobly betray it to the cold-blooded murders of collu- 
sive affiliations. And can any sane mind believe that these 
last subsidized hundreds of millions annually, by a deluded 
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Sense can mentality appeal in tliese public spoilsmen ? Rea- 
son ? They plead their faith and the gods of their faith — 
might makes the right. Can you define public sentiment, 
then, as a conservative ? The prestige of all governments 
of monarchy is, to keep this in abeyance to its faith, of 
which the monarch is the defender. Even the United 
States, that led the world to true government, are still tram- 
melled by the poison circulated in their provincial veins. 

Can England, that sustains her clergy as part of her 
aristocracy and government, that subsidizes by millions the 
church establishment, submit to put down one without the 
other? Can the body survive the soul? And does man 
put his mind to best use, when he sells it to the woi'st un- 
principled speculators in stocks — that of mind ? It is need- 
less for protestants to censure the infallibility of the pope, 
when every little ecclesiastical circle has its infallible pope 
on its false position, that brings mind to allegiance to 
dogmatism of Jewism, or affiliations, or atheism. All that 
depart from the normal principles of the great charter of 
the universe are amenable to the critical censure of men- 
tality. Monotheists exist on this immutahh position. 



The Organization of Man is to be Profoundly Scanned. — 
This endows with the faculty of mentality, that secures by 
its capacity the treasures of the universe, civilization of 
society, and happiness in ratio. This is clearly progressive 
in individual and social man relatively to all the exposi- 
tions of time, past, present, and future. (P. 13.) ''The 
want of experience has convicted atheists in their confusion 
of ideas, as when the Baron says, -'Man did not under- 
stand that nature, equal in her distributions, entirely des- 
titute of goodness or malice, follows only necessary and 
immutable laws, when she either produces beings or de- 
stroys them, when she causes those to suffer whose organi- 



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zation creates sensibility; when she scatters among them 
good and e\iV^ The atheist did not understand, then, 
that nature is the universal essence of reproduction alone, 
a department secluded from that of production, causation, 
antecedent formation — entirely passive under her active 
functions, because the Baron substantially, though igno- 
rantly, admits that she is in abeyance when '^she follows 
only necessary and immutable laws,'' as that word neces- 
sary implies an obligation of cause and effect, her own 
phenomena, and **she follows," that insures the result 
necessarily obedient to an absolute supremacy, who never 
follows, but impels by his omnipotent motive faculty. This 
is the solution of pure analysis. When he admits her 
scattering good and evil, he is self-convicted of all that he 
has said of that kind about Deity. One word outweighs 
all atheistical books, and that is '' necessary,'' that anni- 
hilates atheism. That word Deity-absolute existence spoke 
as a monotheist, and in that beautiful, sublime, and perfect 
language that all creation understands. It is just as 
effectual as his word conservation is, over all patent sav- 
iours — who were still-born. Such is the perfect God of the 
universe. His word mentality at once kills all pagan ideas. 
His religion reduces to nonentity all polytheistical-political 
faith-organizations. ''From hence it is clear that to his ig- 
norance of nature" the atheist ''owes the creation of those 
illusive powers" of his. "He had forgotten the design of 
his existence." (P. 15.) "The universe, that vast assem- 
blage of everything that exists, presents only matter and 
motion." These are only the phenomena of cause and 
effect presented, as the Baron himself has to use the word 
" presents." Whence come its innumerable combinations — 
these essences of beings — this nature^ — this great whole? 
It is a composition of properties, an organization, a con- 
summation. But only hear the Baron, (p. 16,) who says, 
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when he uses the expression, ''Nature produces such or 
such an effect/^ ''there is no intention of personifying that 
nature, which is purely an abstract being : it merely indi- 
cates that the effect spoken of necessarily springs from the 
peculiar properties of those beings which compose the 
mighty macrocosm.'' That is, nature acts — yet she is '' an 
abstract being/' This is " confusion worse confounded.'^ 
The Baron uses his atheistic word "necessary," to bring us 
to the qualities instead of the faculty of things universal. 
The Baron says, (p. 16,) "the laws which nature prescribes 
to the beings she contains." How can an abstract being 
prescribe laws, when it is the essence that constitutes the 
beings, and requires the word " necessary ■' to delineate it? 
*'The essence of a being is its particular, its individual 
nature.'^ That only leaves us in the dark, as when we 
commenced. How presumptuous is atheism! The whole 
of it is a necessary existence, that necessarily looks to an 
absolute existence. 



''Of Motion and its Origin:^ — The origin of motion is 
necessarily relational. The Baron says that "each being, 
by its essence, by its peculiar nature, has the faculty of 
producing a variety of motion."' The word producing is 
necessarily wrong, as it is only reproducing, Reactionary. 
(P. It.) "Let the motion of beings be of whatever nature 
it may, it is always the necessary consequence of their 
essence," all that relates to principles, that are immutable 
of motion. If motion be the necessary consequence, mo- 
tion is the property of and subsequent to essence. 

The Baron says, (p. 19,) "the idea of nature necessaril 
includes that of motion." That word necessarily impli 
causation, whenever used. "But it will be asked, from 
whence did she receive her motion?" ''from herself, since 
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can exist." But how did this "absolute being" get her 
existence ? She was born of the nonentity-innate ideas of 
atheism. "We say this motion is a manner of existence, 
that flows necessarily out of the essence of matter." But 
whence the essence? ''that matter moves by its own pecu- 
liar energies." That is impossible absolutely, as all motion 
is relational, and therefore annihilates the atheistic solecism 
of motion of peculiar energies. Howcan universal forces be 
peculiar ? How can matter act by its own peculiar energy ? 
(P. 20.) ''Whenever mixed bodies were placed in a capac- 
ity to act on each other, motion was instantly engendered." 
iTie Baron instances the mixture of flour and water, closed 
up for some little lapse of time, producing organized micro- 
scopical beings that enjoy life. And what does the atheist 
pretend — yes, pretend to make of it? "it is thus that inani- 
mate matter can pass into life or animate matter, which is 
in itself only an assemblage of motion." The monotheist 
looks at all this as humbug. The microscope reveals 
animalculas in the water. Why, too, should not they be in 
the flour? Had there been even in addition no oppor-^ 
tunity of adding thereto, in the multiplicity of external 
causes? 

The atheist is after a theory of universal convertibility, 
and this version is to render this fallacy of man's origin as 
plausible. This the foundation for atheism! This philoso- 
phy! "Reasoning from analogy," says the Baron. Where 
is the analogy of philosophy which he has aff*ected? Ano 
Logos J according to logic, and that rests on normal prin- 
ciples. 

"Fermentation and putrefaction evidently produce living 
animals." Does philosophy authorize him to speak thus 
dogmatically? Do they not evolve? How can they pro- 
duce? If concession is even to be yielded further, it is 
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proof. This seems an awful tissue of sophistry, unworthy 
of mentality. 

(Page 20.) "These facts incoritestibly prove that mo- 
tion is produced, is augmented, is accelerated in matter 
without the concurrence of any exterior agent!'- What 
facts ? The phenomena of nature, results of cause and 
effect, as ''these combinations in which fire, air, and water 
find themselves in union.'' But the secret is, they must be 
''in the hands of nature" an abstract being. Where, in the 
name of philosophy, is the first fact of incontestible proof? 
"Echo answers, where?" His conclusions, like his pre- 
mises, are worthless ! They are not justifiable by facts t)r 
philosophy. If the previous are not verified, how can any 
imagined subsequents be, though " an infinity of combina- 
tions?" All are necessarily under the rule of cause and 
effect. The Baron has completely failed to explain any 
nature that set herself in action, that is not under a train 
of causation. (21.) All the extraordinary motions, actions, 
and reactions of nature only lay the greater proof of her 
causation; "but if, by nature, be understood what it really 
is, a whole, of which the numerous parts are endowed with 
diverse and various properties; which oblige them to act ac- 
cording to their properties; which are in a perpetual reci- 
procity of action and reaction ; which press ; which gravi- 
tate towards a common centre, whilst others diverge and 
fly off towards the periphery or circumference; which at- 
tract and repel; w^hich unite and separate; which, by con- 
tinual approximation and constant collision, produce and 
decompose all the bodies we behold ; then, I say, there is no 
necessity to have recourse to supernatural powers to account 
for the formation of things, and those phenomena which 
are the result of motion." There is absolute rule, clearly. 

This programme delineates nature as a universal labora- 
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idea, to act according to their properties, their charter of obli- 
gations. This is the position of a subordinate, clearly proved 
by the author himself; no ruler acts thus. The parts are co- 
equal, and are obliged to act conformably to motion. Mo- 
tion is the exponent of their obligation, expressed by time 
as to orbs; all their motions are relational all the time, 
from or to centre and circumference. What is the power 
absolute for the causation of these diversified phenomena? 
Nature, she is their synonym; she is the universal phe- 
nomena. It is just with Deity and the universe in the ab- 
solute existence of the first and the necessary existence of 
the last. These are thus related; the last absolutely de- 
monstrates the first. As to the whole particulars, they will 
prove themselves at proper times, in the development of 
mentality. ''Those who admit a cause exterior to matter 
are obliged to suppose that this cause produced all the mo- 
tion by which matter is agitated in giving it existence." 
Of course the adequate motive faculty did this. This sup- 
position rests on another, namely, that matter could begin 
to exist; geology adequately proves periods of existence of 
the earth ; the period of regular progression and develop- 
ment. This is solid proof. The motion of orb-matter is 
measured by time; suffice it to annihilate all atheistical 
cavils, mentality is adequate to conceive of adequate caus- 
ation, otherwise there is ''no sense upon which the mind 
can fasten itself." That is the last and that supreme point 
for the reason of mentality. There are no more data for 
ideas. Now, for the atheist to pretend that he can cavil 
beyond that about " nothing," is nothing to the sublime 
purpose of creation. He has nothing of ideas to reason on. 
What nonsense, tlien, what effrontery, that he should pre- 
tend to dictate innate ideas — a perfect absurdity. Then 
atheism is nothing, and conveys no ideas of its existence, 
no more than polytheism. The universe proves absolutely 
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its God-causation, and nothing less. Then what else is 
there to have an idea about ? Out upon atheistical soph- 
istry to affect ideas of nothing. Monotheists start from 
Him that represents all powers of mentality and all of fac- 
ulty, and estimate Him mentality-faculty. ''How can we 
understand that that which cannot cease to be, could ever 
have had a beginning ?^^ The question is, how can an athe- 
ist have an idea of nothing ? That is not the fair propo- 
sition. He has to start from adequate, perfect, absolute 
causation, of which he has a universal idea through cause 
and effect, enough to fill any man's brains his lifetime. 

Antecedent causation negatives the prior existence of 
matter, and of course motion, its exponent. The Baron 
sajs, (21,) that ''as motion is coeval with matter, it must 
have existed from all eternity, seeing that motion is the 
necessary consequence of its existence, of its essence, of its 
primitive properties, such as its extent, its gravity, its im- 
penetrability, its figure,'^ &c. How could it (matter) have 
existed from all eternity, if its coeval motion is a necessary 
consequence of its existence ? Atheistic consistency is, in- 
deed, a jewel to be found. 

22. The Baron says, "from which it maybe fairly in- 
ferred that, in supposing, as we are under the necessity of 
doing, the existence of matter, we must suppose it to have 
some kind of properties, from which its motion or modes of 
action must necessarily flow." 

The monotheist does not suppose as the atheist; he de- 
monstrates as a free mind, honest and above board. Thus 
monotheist free minds are exempt also from superstitious 
existless fears, that compel pagan minds to adopt poly- 
theistic, fraudulent policies. IST one other can ever rise to 
the dignity of its analogue mentality-faculty, to use the 
right, justice, and equity of living conformably and consist- 
ently to monotheist institutions, that impart the beautiful 



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sublimity of meeting the requisitions of principles without 
waiting for the penalty of man. These do not endorse 
church-organizations, speculations, and spoliations of mind, 
but man's best protection. The atheist begs existence of 
matter. This is yielding the question of the motive power, 
especially when the Baron brings in ''necessity," which im- 
plies the adequate causation most satisfactorily. He can 
get no existence of matter but by concession, and the mon- 
otheist can spare it as that of creation. Motion comes 
very naturally from matter in existence, but how about it 
antecedently? Atheism has to admit positively motion as 
the necessary consequence of existence. ''To form the 
universe, Descartes asked but matter and motion.'^ Indeed! 
Where was the conservation to come from ? 

Only hear the nonsense continued: " Matter without pro- 
perties would be a mere nothing; therefore, as soon as mat- 
ter exists, it must act.'' Indeed, sir atheistic oracle, it 
must. But how about its existence ? Let us know all 
about that part. It is that very motion that gives the ex- 
istence. That is the philosophic deduction of monotheist, 
normal, organic, rational-mentality principles; and atheism 
begs the question of monotheism, and ungratefully assassin- 
ates her existence! Is this morality? and polytheism, but 
another name for atheism, endorses all! But we must wade 
through the atheistical mine and quicksands, " If it (that 
is matter) cannot commence to exist, it must have existed 
from all eternity; if it has always existed, it can never cease 
to be; if it can never cease to be, it can never cease to act 
by its own energy. Motion is a manner of being which 
matter derives from its peculiar existence." 

What a set of sophisticated ifs. Honesty is the best 
policy. This property belongs to monotheist institutions, 
that vindicate themselves — "if matter cannot commence 
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has been demonstrated that matter does commence its ex- 
istence, and " that motion is the necessary consequence of 
its existence" — demonstrates existence of matter not coeval 
with motion, else how could the last be the consequence ? 
It could not be one and the other at the same time — '' a 
coeval with matter/^ and a consequence of its existence. 

Consequence implies a subsequent — a necessary conse- 
quence implies it most absolutely. The illustration is clear, 
in the action of the atom up to the universe by combina- 
tion. Is it reasonable, just, that the last was as instanta- 
neous as the first ? Do the facts of geology confirm the 
facts of motion ? The full history of developments gainsays 
the proposition of instantaneous universal birth. The whole 
difficulty can only be solved by antecedent causation. Mo- 
tion is a constituent of existence — of matter — an effect. 
What less than an absolute cause was the antecedent ? All 
motion is produced by an adequate cause. 

31. ''AH the phenomena we perceive are necessary," im- 
ply that nature is necessity personified, that looks to an 
absolute causation — else why is *' necessity the constant 
and infallible connection of causes with their effects?" jS'e- 
cessity implies an absolute causation. It is remarkable 
how atheism ties itself up in language necessary for defini- 
tion. The Baron says: ''In fine, we are obliged to admit 
that there can be no independent energy, no isolated cause, 
no detached action, in a nature where all the beings are in 
a reciprocity of action — who, without interruption, mutu- 
ally impel and resist each other — who is herself nothing 
more than an eternal circle of motion, given and received 
according to necessary laws." 

This is the dying bond of atheism, that is "obliged to 
admit" that energy is dependent — that is, universal depend- 
ence on its adequate motive power; that all motion is an 
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demands an absolute antecedent ; let mind especially ana- 
lyze the last from 'Svho to laws/^ and it reads thus: that 
nature is an effect under the government of laws, all effects 
of a universal antecedent; none can escape the conclusion, 
that nature is the universal functionary under necessary ob- 
ligations, that define her duties or phenomena. 

There is no necessity of tracing out any further, but we 
propose to see the Baron to the end of his unnecessary 
work. 

The position is, that nature has no independent energy. 
Atheism cannot gainsay it, when she says, ''nature, who is 
herself nothing more than an eternal circle of motion,'^ that 
is, effect, and that under necessary laws, a universal effect un- 
der universal obligations, to an independent energy. What 
a miserable delusion attends upon atheists who personify 
nature (33), and yet affect she is an abstract being. This 
is the constant vascillation of sophistry; ''nature acts and 
exists necessarily," is ift abeyance to absolute existence. 
The word necessity is fatal to atheism, whenever and 
wherever used; it implies the series of phenomena of cause 
and eft'ect in universal abeyance to adequate causatioa 
Try matter and necessity together, the pure analysis is the 
existence of matter under supreme regulation. When it is 
said that " necessity is the mother of the world," it is a 
misnomer and a misconception; it is this, the universe is 
necessarily ruled by adequate causation. When the Baron 
in his note says, " matter acts because it exists, and exists 
to act," he shows a very paltry idea of universal existence, 
unworthy of such mighty means that are worthy of the 
A 1 mighty Conservator. 

" Matter exists necessarily, or because it contains within 
itself a sufficient reason for its existence." That is an im- 
possible position; no matter contains within itself at any 
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That contradicts his own premises quoted, '' that there can 
be no independent energy '^ as to Deity. Further on he 
says, ''this being is necessary, and inchides a sufficient rea- 
son for his own existence^' (p. 33). This is not the fair 
presentation at all. The adequate Causator has absolute, 
not necessary existence. This category is entirely nugatory, 
and stupidly or knowingly ignores mentality-faculty, an in- 
dependent, absolute faculty. Poor atheism, thou canst 
'* advance a single step.'' 

" We have simply laid aside an agent of which we know 
some of the properties, to have recourse to a power of 
which it is utterly impossible we can form any distinct 
idea, and whose existence cannot be demonstrated.'' And 
you acknowledge only a partial agent, of which you only 
know some of the properties, and premise atheistically a 
power of whom there can be no idea of course, a being of 
your necessary sophistry, that cannot be worth a thought, 
even if attempted to be proved. ^ This is palming off the 
shadow of infidelity for the absolute reality of fidelity. 

Monotheists adore an absolute-existence Creator, while 
atheists and polytheists dogmatize necessarily on assump- 
tions, and spread their futile but mischievous speculations 
over the world. Monotheists are able to realize the mu- 
nificent behests of Deity in his universal chart, the guide 
to all the elevated qualities of immortal souls. They judge 
by facts, to which atheists and polytheists must resign all 
their prejudices and errors of visionary and preposterous 
faith; such can embrace all mankind in the comprehension 
of universal brotherhood, and all the amiable qualities of 
the loftiest, vital, and immortal benefits. 

(P. 33.) Order. — ''It is easy to comprehend that this 
idea of order — the necessary, regular, and periodical motion 
in the universe — and confusion can have no absolute exist- 
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therefore, in his imagination alone man finds the model of 
that which he terms order/^ &c. Order is part of the uni- 
versal economy, and refers to adequate causation, Mr. 
Atheist. Order is the elegant, perfect rule of cause and 
effect, that necessarily refers to its perfect astronomy legis- 
lator. 

Atheistical metaphysics refer to a being that is neces- 
sary, that is, useless and nugatory for rule, as.it is in abey- 
ance. Order is universal motion already disposed of ; to 
the order of monotheist institutions that preceded the 
atheistical ''necessity of things" (34). 

(P. 36.) '' Nay, each individual being always acts in or- 
der; all its actions, the whole system of its motion, are the 
necessary consequence of its peculiar mode of existence." 
What determines that peculiar mode of existence, the 
whole system of its motion ? Adequate causation. Who 
can have idea of any other, as nature ''an abstract being?" 
" Matter assumes sensible action, intelligence, and life, when 
it is combined after particular modes." Who combines it? 
Nature? She is the combination — she is an abstract being! 
Of course, " order is the necessary uniform connection of 
causes with their effects;" but their adequate causation is 
the question (39). These causes act according to laws 
that are dependent on the essential properties of these 
causes, as in their future combination or modification, says 
the Baron. Whence the essential })roperties themselves, as 
properties, dependants? This is the inextricable jargon 
of atheism about energy, the common property of all beings. 
Nature is then universally divided into peculiar natures. 

(P. 41.) " Man is a passive instrument in the hands of 
necessity," and so is all nature by all normal logic, and that 
yields, O, atheist, the whole into the su))reme rule of ab- 
solute-existence faculty, demonstratively, as to spirituality, 
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(P. 43.) Before defining the soul, life must be defined. 
What is life, but a condition of the soul ? '' Life (he says) 
is the assemblage of motion natural to an organized being, 
and motion can only be a property of matter. ^^ But if 
motion be coeval with matter, how can it be its property ? 
Another inconsistency, Mr. Baron. 

As to spirituality, that, as well as immateriality, are incom- 
patibles with existence, as mind has no idea of each. Men^s 
mentality is an analogue to mentality-faculty, the only su- 
preme faculty adequate causation. 

(P. 43.) ''Man is a production of nature." This is ut- 
terly untrue, for he is only a reproduction, dogmatic athe- 
ists to the contrary : are these ignoramuses prepared to 
answer whence he came ? Nature consists of universal de- 
pendences, yet contrary to this position she is assumed as 
independent. Then nature is essentially a dependent exist- 
ence in all her relations. Whence came she ? From ade- 
quate causation. Atheism presents much idle speculation 
in this chapter about man. 

(P. 44.) Man's time of creation ranges under motion, 
that is the consequence of the existence of matter. What 
atheistical speculations about the formation of this planet, 
by perhapses from other orbs, suns, or comets! But whence 
they, the primaries? How is it, sir atheist, to sustain your 
consistency, that nature does not produce new organiza- 
tions? Because that is not her function ; it is impossible 
that reproduction can become production; they are incon- 
vertible terras. 

(P. 46.) The Baron says: ''suns incrust themselves, and 
are extinguished; planets perish and disperse themselves in 
the vast plains of air." We have had specimens of athe- 
istic attempts at argument, and these are atheistic history ! 
I do not believe one word of either; I deny that such is 
the case; I demand unequivocal proof — that cannot be fur- 
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(P. 47.) ''We have some ideas of nature." We can 
have none of nature, the atheistical abstraction; he might 
as well say mind has it as an innate idea. The monotheist 
nature is a universal reality. The polytheistic is also au 
innate abstraction; we can have idea of nature monotheist 
a reproduction, no more. How inconsistent the atheist ap- 
pears to limit the parts of nature, and yet give the whole 
parts unlimited powers. What nonsense. The atheist, in 
pursuing his innate abstract idea, affects the incapacity to 
appreciate the idea of Deity, and confirms his pure inca- 
pacity in caviling about the idea of nothing. The soul. 
• — (4T.) We can only know the soul of man through his 
organization, as we can only estimate Deity through uni- 
versal organization — that is, mentality can only appreciate 
mentality-faculty, its analogue, through the universe. ''How 
can a being without extent be movable, and put matter in 
motion?" How, I ask, is it that mind through government 
puts tlie nation in motion? '' How can a substance, devoid 
of parts, correspond successively with different parts of 
space?" How, I ask, can mind act, communicate intelli- 
gently with mind, even the most distant, antipodal, in a 
very few minutes, tlirough electricity? If the soul be any- 
thing, it has parts for adequate functions. It cannot exist 
exempt from its entire individuality and consummate attri- 
butes. If in ail earthly organization it can now overcome 
time and space in a moderate progress of mentality, its ex- 
ponent, what will it not do in its more matured develop- 
ments ? Who can say or define the amount of capacity, 
functions, faculty, and rights of its creation? All must be 
duly considered as to the ultimate supreme object and pur- 
port of the universe, the mighty organization of an Al- 
mighty for an almighty purpose. If it were not for a 
mighty jsurpose, then is it not a cruel mockery of existence? 
What is atheistical nature but this? What is it but a hor- 
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rible mangling, transforming series of reproductions, con- 
suming, mak.ng alive to devour, in this great laboratory of 
inquisitorial nature ? How far is the refuted atheist to be 
heard in all his preposterous nonsense of such a nature, and 
she, he affects with innate ideas, is an abstract being in the 
universe and out of it? Is the polytheisms devil or demon 
worse, or as bad ? This is the atheistical programme a 
horrid monster, from whom the light has been taken, accord- 
ing to the poet^s idea. 

When you divest man of his soul, you divest the universe 
of its innocence, beauty, loveliness and dignity, mind of its 
sublimest faculty, and the adequate causation of its noblest 
creation and consummation — the crowning, everlasting tri- 
umph. 

If any one fact is established, that is, if the universe ex- 
ist, that existence is necessary, and iis causation is absolute, 
and absohitely demonstrated; and the next proposition is 
equally conclusive, that something worthy of creation is to 
be consummated. What is that? Nothing less than Deity^s 
analogue is to be exalted to its appropriate functions. The 
appreciation of an eternal Deity bespeaks an immortal po- 
sit.on to comprehend the consummation. 

The soul-organization is the mighty element of thought, 
word, and deed, the analogue of mentality-faculty, that is 
the absolute element of all perfect potentiality. How, 
then, can the first be annihilated, since even all matter per- 
sists, by everlasting motion, to universal laws ? The uni- 
verse is its subsidiary, and Deity its model. 

Once for all, there is no such thing as spirituality; and 
as to immateriality, all things are material, subtle as they 
are. Spirituality ever destroys the idea of immateriality; 
they are utterly incompatible. 

The faiulty of mentality has subdued the subtlest agents 
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ble that mentality presents an element of the sublimest 
faculty. Can an atheist, who has failed in all his atheistic 
problem, possess credit for mind? Where, now, is he to be 
trusted ? Where is an atheist ? Who can have an idea 
of such a being ? It is an innate idea; that is an absurdi- 
ty. The same is predicated of polytheists. Where are they? 
Let their metaphysics henceforth be buried. But whence 
departs the soul? Is not dissolution, as it is emphatically 
called, the very essential means of its excelsior progress ? 
Was this not most essentially necessary to the progressive 
completion of his immortal existence, the maturer develop- 
ments? This universe furnishes him with elementary means 
for thought, word, and action. Where is the adequate faculty 
for the fruition? Mentality. — The mentality of mind is ade- 
quate to the mighty question of the world, and why is it not 
finally to the universe analogous to a consummation of 
worlds ? How is the universal problem to be met ? Only 
by a universal adequate position. Is it compatible, then, 
for Deity, who presides over perfect universal economy, to 
expend uselessly the most valuable and rarest cabinet ma- 
terials ? To the best of noblest purposes, in their most 
comprehensive capacity, can such be devoted. The diver- 
sity of man's condition, intellectually and physically, is 
rightly appreciated by the Baron, who admits the necessity 
of morals for society. No dogma of spirituality, or of athe- 
ism, can preside in these, however. They must be regulated 
by the normal principles of mentality-faculty, else they 
invariably become conventional, and cause factious asso- 
ciations, affecting political, polytheistical, or atheistical 
faith. This is the certain reason why society has been 
ever disturbed by conventional diversities. The morality 
of principles is uniform and stable, and can enable man to 
meet all the requisitions of his sphere. But none of the 
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deployed by the Baron, looks very plausible; yet it is plau- 
sible atheistic sophistry. 

^ Atheism and polytheism are in abeyance to monotheism, 
as sure as an eternal monotheist God has absolute existence 
— no other can have; and over man's existence mentality 
predicates rightly. 

(6t.) ''Morals, like the universe, are founded upon ne- 
cessity, or upon the eternal relation of things." How can 
this relation be curtailed of the monotheist relations? 
Permanent felicity has to be referred thereto. How de- 
fective is this! 

(tl.) ^' Above all, religion has consecrated the most un- 
reasonable, the most revolting customs." This is a libel : 
religion is innocent — it was faith-organizations. So much 
for pure language, to do justice to pure ideas. What care 
monarchical regimes for any other than faith-organizations, 
that subserve their mercenary and ambitious purposes ? 
These cliques act as proprietors and masters of nations, soul 
and body. Their faith-organizations are factious injuries to 
society ; as manners are habits of a people, can their con- 
ventionalities be morals, that necessarily depend on normal 
principles ? 

(78.) ''In the general system of the world, nothing more 
can.be perceived than a long series of motion, received 
and communicated in succession " &c. ; enouau is said to 
imply reception of an exterior impulse. (85.) Yet he says 
on this page, that "The word God is destined to repre- 
sent to him an object that has not the capacity to act on 
any one of his organs, of which, consequently, it is impossi- 
ble for him to prove either the existence or the qualities." 
Yet it has been absohitely demonstrated that all his senses 
have an action from the universe of God, whose existence 
was absolute, and qualities variously delineated as perfect ! 
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might as well olject to God being invisible to him, or that 
he could not touch him. Suffice is it for him to know there 
is no standard but the universe chart, no model but his God. 
Tiiis is enough to rule out atheists, polytheists, and all 
their organizations from monotheist institutions, for the 
welfare of society. Let all collusions of power retire, be- 
fore man's rights shall be more invaded ; let them yield 
their ill-gotten power. No, there is not so much differ- 
ence as is pretended by the emissaries of the usurpers of 
power. They would all agree to constitutional representa- 
tive government and religious principles, did not the spoils 
of a bullion nearly annually preclude the hypocrites from 
giving up monarchy and its protected faith-organizations. 
Yes, much do I believe in such. Who can? Satellites, 
the sharers of plunder. What a cunningly devised web 
has been fabricated by the spiders of government and faith- 
factions, to catch the poor mass, flies. Poor victims of 
fanaticism — how their masters laugh in their sleeves at the 
antics! What mockery, what cruel mockery, what cruel 
speculation on the souls of men ! 

What value is to be attached to any position, if experi- 
ence do not endorse its utility ? Polytheism has proved a 
cruel failure, atheism a miserable anarchist. Why are minds 
so lost, as overlook their own monotheistic institutions? 
This is a fixed fact, that overrules all opinions of faith. 

(P. 88.) ''Nevertheless, in despite of the shackles by 
which he is bound, it is pretended he (man) is a free agent; 
or that, independent of the causes by which he is moved, 
he determines his own will and regulates his own condi- 
tion " The United States of America gives a brilliant 
illustration of free will, on the principles subsidiary to its 
functions. Free will is not that it is competent, when under 
abeyance to untoward circumstances, of doing as much as 
its legitimate capacity premises, but that it reach its nor- 
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mal faculty of regulating all practicable. This is religion 
on the right basis. This premises free mind, that acts up 
to the rightful capacities of its existence. 

90. The author continues a great deal about necessary 
laws binding on man, and they must be on nature, ren- 
dering her a subordinate being of cause and effect, that 
make up all the phenomena in abeyance to the adequate 
causation. Is man capable of planning, devising for his 
future good? Then he exercises his legitimate free will. 
The will is invariably decided by the regulating faculty, as 
reason; mentality more or less presides. The sublimer the 
mentality, the more available the will, that is free to act for 
the beneficiary. The more pagan the mind, the less free is 
the will to preside for individual benefit, but acts under 
malign influences, a greater slave to irrational and detri- 
mental impulses. 

Mentality, then, makes free mind, free will not acting 
licentiously, which is absurd, not spiritually, which is non- 
sense, but monotheistically. Mentality puts free mind in 
the best of all capacities, that it may be free to act at all 
times rightly. When the mind is freed from slavish pre- 
judices of bigotry, superstitious innate-idea delusions, then 
it is free to act on the right perception of normal principles. 
This is the glorious freedom of the will. The soul is a 
superb faculty that determines man's thoughts, words, and 
deeds. Then let mind have all its vested rights, as far as 
the soul can be a free agent. 

92. What is free agency for? What are, can be its 
functions? The right action on normal principles. Had 
man been deprived of this element, he would be only a 
brute being, governed by mere animal instinct. As it is 
his manly endowment of mentality, reason enables him to 
weigh and decide on his best judgment. 

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mentality's purpose, the object of its creation. *^ Choice 
by no means proves the free agency of man." ^'orm.il 
choice evidently proves free agency, according to normal 
principles. There is but a right and wrong way for mind^s 
action. The multiplicity of results from similar causes and 
effects evinces the normal free a^ency^ of man. Free 
agency, then, is to secure the noblest use and benefit to 
the beneficiary mind. Free will is the act of free mind 
possessed of normal faculties, normal knowledge, and cir- 
cumstances. Free will is normal government of free mind. 
Without such, the universe of free mind is made in vain; 
hence it is certain that the systems of self-rule have been 
failures, proved by the overt acts of crime. No less are 
those of social and national rule culpable. The reason is, 
that false faiths have been fastened on the world by false 
rulers, kings, priests, and their cabinets, who are loo taken 
with the spoils ever to think of changing voluntarily; by 
erroneous conventionalities that have been esteemed as 
morals, when they were only national customs and habits; 
by indulgence of passions, of ambition, avarice, conquest, 
and all that disgrace the principles of society. 

The proper ascendency of reason decides the condition, 
as mind does not recognize the responsibility of a deranged 
being as a free agent. Normal motives must decide all 
mentality, that is after all normal government. 

Does mind, free mind will? Of course it does; but as 
''all his (man's) institutions are really founded upon neces- 
sity," it is necessary that he act with a free will to right 
action. Monotheist institutions afford the right motive for 
present and future existence. The very existence of society 
requires the right education, the right model for normal 
principles. What kind of feeling and passion does fatalism 
engender, but that of apathy ? Does it not bend to the 
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available of what is mere mortal existeoce? What cared 
the tyrants of ancient Rome for remorse? Did a Nero or 
Caligula ever feel it? Where was their retribution? Did 
nature make exceptions for these emperors? Where are 
the principles of normality, to regulate all such excesses? 
How can you reach the conscience of these miscreants? 
Where is the conscience of the cannibal ? In his stomach ? 
Where do we find ourselves by the atheistic creed? With 
the doctrine of necessity. How can man exert himself under 
this imperial fiat? To what point does his existence tend? 

111. Are "the decrees of a destiny," then, to decide for 
him ? What is destiny ? A rale under the sway of cause 
and effect, that rule for their supreme Ruler. Athe sm is 
as unfit for the proper government of man in his highest 
relations, as monarchies are for his civil institut'ons, when 
the aristocracy are to have precedence of all the [jeople, 
no matter how talented or meritorious. We see the evil 
effects when the race of kings, who become foggy, run out 
by in-breeding. Fatalism must be as dangerous a state of 
society as the innate-idea absurdity of polytheism, acting 
in adulterous union with monarchy or even a^iings at re- 
publicanism. 

The right position must be taken, nothing less than the 
monotheist, who is absolutely entitled to the same by all 
vested rights of mentality ; that nothing can confute. Kow, 
what otherwise can exclude the dtbauchee, fanatic, tyrant 
of atheistic necessity? (112.) Where is, then, man's true 
dignity ? 

113. ''All that has been said in the course of this work 
proves clearly that everything is necessary." But the 
necessity is necessary to a higher purpose, as effect refers 
to its cause. That is the only true light. All the particu- 
lars are equally necessary to the universe of nature, only 
necessary to nature " by the necessity of herexistence." Ka- 



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ture, then, cannot be responsible under her necessity. Who 
is, but her Creator? If ''nature follows general and neces- 
sary laws in all her operations," she is plainly subordinate; 
much so, when ''physical and moral evil are not to be 
ascribed to her want of kindness, but to the necessity of 
things/^ Then the atheist yields to nature^s regent at all 
points. Poor atheistic sophistry, how stubborn and mischiev- 
ous thy folly. P. 114. (Nature) "she submits man, like 
all other beings, to those eternal laws from which she has 
not been able to exempt herself." Stronger and stronger. 

Page 111. The soul is electricity, subject to the laws of 
decomposition. Is not the faculty of thought, word and 
deed, mentality, supreme even to this — pervading all mat- 
ter as it recognizes its specialties and qualities? P. 121. 
" Dost thou not behold in those eccentric comets with which 
thine eyes are sometimes astonished, that the planets them- 
selves are subject to death ?" What nonsensical untruth. 
This atheist, as all atheists, knew as much of the immor- 
tality of the soul as he did of comets. Let us hear, after 
this, no atheistical sermons of this kind of nonsense. The 
soul has consummate faculty for its great and mighty re- 
sults, worthy of creation — the only worth in it. P. 131. 
Education is the theme, and the Baron premises that man 
is delinquent, because, among the reasons, he is not "prop- 
erly instructed in her necessary laws." And can atheism 
supply that delinquency by its necessity? Every violation 
or suppression of principles weakens social and all obliga- 
tions. If this education w^ere normal on principles, the 
monotheist God and institutions would fully exclude all the 
delinquency, all polytheistical idolatry, all atheistic chime- 
ras. These last two vitiate and enslave man, while the 
first, the true friend, enfranchises and liberalizes his free 
mind. Normal education is the mighty potent means that 
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its inherent energy gives it over all the deceiving politics 
of the world, whether of Church or State, combined or 
separate. 

To enlighten mind, all the comprehension must be sur- 
veyed by mentality, that the noblest aspirations may pre- 
vail over all the turbulent notoriety of a mere worldly, 
mischievous, despotic fame. The atheist evidently sacri- 
fices mind to his necessity, and the polytheist sacrifices it 
to his blind self-love and interest. The great position of 
tnonotheist conservation to society is, to render it indepen- 
dent of all the conspiracies that factious organizations, 
whether of faith or politics, can array against it, and that 
it may successfully repel all into distant fragments. This 
is the desirable point to be secured society. What an era 
in human history, to be independent of individual will! 

169. The author says that the same infant becomes 
either a malefactor with robbers, or likely a virtuous man 
among honest people. This proves the intrinsic value of 
conscience and its normal principles, for the world to stand 
up to. It has to investigate the proper source and stand- 
ard, the model whence they originate. This question is 
worthy the noblest statesmen, as the problem requires a 
consummate solution. The monotheist God has given 
mind the means. 160. That mind is a free agent that acts 
on the data of the universe, and appropriates its universal 
faculties in the treasury of its own individuality. Its own 
faculties rise thus above all of creation, and direct neces- 
sity of passive being to the triumphant one of action. 

It is positively certain that this world is a new state of 
existence to man, who has to learn how to appreciate life. 
When he contemplates what is atheistic necessity, he must 
decide the impotency of atheistic metaphysics 173. '* Thus 
nature cannot be accused of either goodness or malice, since 
everything that takes place in it is necessary — is produced 




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by an invariable system, to which every other being, as 
well as herself, is eternally subjected." 

After all said and agreed by the Baron, he has to ac- 
knowledge his nature subject to a supreme abstraction, a 
metaphysical absurdity — sophism. As mind advances in 
the progress of science, it advances to mentality and the 
God of mentality. 

Pagan mind embraced atheism and polytheism as a union 
in their God, Pan, the most ancient of gods, the great as- 
semblage of things. This, then, does not advance the cause 
of mentality, but destroys the claims of both before its tri- 
bunal. Let Pan, let fate, necessity, be universal nature; 
all, however personified, must be subject to their creator, 
the first or adequate causator. P. It9 and 183. 

181. The author advances the words nature, matter, mo- 
bility> necessity, as more intelligible words than spirit, in- 
corporeal substance, divinity, &c. Now, nature is birth or 
reproduction, no more; matter is capable of mobility, and 
has the influence of cause and effect; necessarily necessity 
does not govern matter — it only expresses a state, a quality 
of rule by causation; anything else makes atheistical non- 
sense. This causation is divinity, perfectly sacred. It is 
no spirit, and has no negative characteristic, as incorporeal, 
that is not appurtenant. As to man being the prototype of 
Deity, mentality cannot organize Deity at all. So, then, 
for once atheism is at fault. Last. This being, who is men- 
tality-faculty, has the language of ideas, as autographed in 
his universal chart of thoughts, words, and deeds for man. 

One of the Baron's greatest atheistical absurdities (182) 
is objecting to man appreciating God as eternal — that is, of 
infinite duration, " because he is not capable of conceiving 
he could have had a beginning, or can ever cease to be." 
Of course, when mind reaches the supreme authority of 
ideas, it must not recur to fictitious innate ones. The Ba- 



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ron should have known all this. Where was atheistical 
magnanimity? Where was atheistical argument? All lost 
in its sophistry. God is immutable in principles, and is the 
consistent supreme author of ideas. Despotic ministers 
have assumed to dictate to the world who Deity is, and 
have perverted monotheist institutions. These confute all 
atheistical and theological metaphysics. The language of 
man is yet inadequate to convey all that is just in idea of 
the monotheist God, who created nature for his monotheist 
purpose, and consummated it with the diamond mentality, 
the immortal soul. 

195. Principles that rule the universe aright, ever justify 
and vindicate Deity. They enable mentality to rise su- 
perior, supreme to all creation, second only to God alone. 
The Creator first, and mentality next. It is not mere mind, 
it is mentality that enables the soul to take precedence of 
all creation. The faculty of mind, and its immortal exist- 
ence in the excellence of happiness, are deeds worthy of its 
immortal Creator, who spoke his universal oracle to man- 
kind (199), who owe him therefor universal relations. 

The universe declares mutual obligations of paternity of 
causation, and fihal affections of the created. The rela- 
tions are monotheist, the firmest, best that could be devised. 
Much of atheistical casuistry has been used 4:hat '' men have 
no more relation with God than stones." " In the mean 
time the authority of God can only be founded on the good 
which he does to men." God has done a universe full of 
good to men, and that is his authority. He has acted as a 
creative God ; theirs is the duty of monotheist beings, to 
merit a monotheist, that is, eternal felicity. 

Analogues, as mentality to mentality-faculty, have moral 
relations towards each other of the highest order, refined 
by the noblest sublimity of religion. 

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"religions of the world that have a despotic God for their 
basis." Monotheist institutions are not accountable for athe- 
ists mistaking their life-time theological faith-organizations 
for monotheist religion. The monotheist God has no des- 
potism, as normal principles rule all. 

All religion that is known to mentality is revealed by 
the universal chart. There can be no other known to mind, 
in any truthful wise; all this is in conformity **to all the 
laws of nature and of reason." 

These absolutely demonstrate, with positive certainty, 
that all priest- versions are alien and spurious, the most in- 
consistent to religion and the existence of God; their con- 
spiracy with monarchs as accomplices over mind^s vested 
rights, the most flagrant violations of all principles for mer- 
cenary fanaticism. By such heinous conduct they have 
proved themselves utterly devoid of trust, and ignorant of 
truth, perverting all that is right by their versions. 

God originates, radiates his virtues, that are models for 
man, who is the only spirit, as he breathes the atmosphere. 
Hence, those who depart life are not spirits; immateriality 
becomes material the moment the substance of atmosphere 
is inspired. His universal revelation of ideas demonstrates 
that he is perfect in universal justice, equity, love, wisdom, 
faculty — goodness. This is fatal to all particular organized 
faith-bibles. All that is revelation can only be imparted by 
ideas, for thoughts, words, and deeds; hence all fabricators, 
as Moses, &c., of the spurious type, can only be regarded 
as the most pitiful blockheads — deadheads — whose misera- 
ble results were misanthropy of the various faith-factions to 
each other, vindictive, revengeful, murderous, malicious — 
deadly hostile. They have fallaciously deceived man, when 
the universal revelation enabled him to form correct ideas 
of Deity, and duty to all, and make his own being a bless- 
ing, instead of a curse to man. 
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Mind has to emerge from the patriarchal vassalage of su- 
perstition, and assert the fixed dignity of mentality, by full 
adoption of monotheist God. 

205. The consent or unanimity of man to acknowledge 
God, advances nothing till he is absolutely demonstrated. 
That demonstration excludes all opposition. That alone 
confirms the monotheist, shames the polytheist, and silences 
the atheist. Before that, the last speaks as if conclusively. 

208. '^iso one hath ever seen God;'^ but reason, mental- 
ity, sees him demonstratively in causation antecedent. Of 
course '^ the idea of the Divinity is not innate,'' for the uni- 
verse is full of his ideas. The idea of God is through men- 
tality, that recognizes him altogether mentality-faculty, ad- 
equate causation. This demonstration annihilates the guess- 
ing credulity of atheistical and polytheistical tradition, that 
has ruled the world at the expense of mind and means. 
Those who are candid can have the demonstration satisfac- 
tory for absolute conviction. There is but one proof for 
all, and that is the whole universe. The opposition deals in 
gratuitous suppositions. 

211. *' Matter is the great engine used by nature to pro- 
duce all her phenomena, or rather it is nature herself." 
Yet this nature is an abstract being, and has to use matter. 
What an idea — clear as mud — matter is subordinate to na- 
ture, and still it is nature herself! Hear his proof, *'that 
matter has always existed:'' First, that which exists sup- 
poses existence essential to its being." Then essence or 
organization is predicated or premised of being ; essence 
or organization must be first conceded, that is certain. 
•'That which cannot annihilate itself exists necessarily;" 
all necessary existence, then, is secondary, subordinate, 
and in abeyance to the rule of cause and effect, referable to 
adequate causation, who rules its organization in the uni- 
verse, that cannot be annihilated by itself; '^ it is impossible to 



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conceive that that which cannot cease to exist, or that which 
cannot annihilate itself, could ever have had a beginning." 
It is impossible, after the preceding analysis, that the uni- 
verse of matter could have existed necessarily without a 
beginning as necessity; cause and effect demonstrate they 
have causation adequate. Now his conclusion — " If mat- 
ter cannot be annihilated, it could not commence to be," is 
contradictory to his own preceding '* exists necessarily," that 
has to yield its necessary existence to the supreme causation. 

211. ^' It is matter, it is nature, acting by her own pecu- 
liar energy." All this energy is secondary, having had an 
antecedent motive power, that is fully and adequately rep- 
resented by principles or elements. 

What is this motive power? 212. ''Does it not act 
necessarily?" Certainly not, as it is absolute. The universe 
acts necessarily, and has, therefore, a necessary existence. It 
is idle to abuse sense of reason and mentality, as the Baron 
does, by speculative supererogatory questions, ''if it is not 
obliged to employ indispensable means to fulfil its designs!" 
after seeing that the universe has indispensable principles of 
conservation for a universe. It is unworthy of the magna- 
nimity of mentality, that liberality had once accorded athe- 
ism, which if deprived of, sinks into utter insignificant and ar- 
rogant evil malignity. "Then we shall say that nature is 
obliged t(5 act after her essence;" and that yields the whole 
question, for the obligation clearly, positively, absolutely 
subordinates her to reproductive functions only. Language 
is that which expresses ideas, however usurpation may ar- 
rogate as its property, like everything else of abuse. Nature 
was meant to be birth by her name. Words stand for 
ideas to man, and ideas are God\s universal statuary that 
cannot be counterfeited. "Everything that takes place in 
her is necessary, and that if they suppose it governed by a 
Deity, this God cannot act otherwise than he does, and 
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Behold, the bond of atheism is given up entirely, with- 
out reservation, to its original destination, monotheist fa- 
culty. It could not be otherwise by the very essence of 
things, that necessarily had a certain kind of existence, de- 
creed by absolute mentality-faculty, and confirmed by his 
omniscient wisdom. 

The whole of the last extract specifies the necessary re- 
sponsibility of creation to its creative power. This posi- 
tion evidently constitutes the free will of free mind to act 
to its best advantage as a creature, not creator. Free will 
acts by general causes that determine it. The universe is 
dependent as a necessary existence, because its universal 
phenomena of cause and effect are the necessary emanation 
from adequate, self-existent, eternal causation, " owing to 
its existence" and its mode of action. Matter having this 
position cannot be independent and necessary; the terms are 
antagonistic — fatal to each other. Matter is necessary and 
dependent on its primary mover. 

212. The eternal absolute existence is immutable in prin- 
ciples. Who ever appreciated change of principles, much 
less of their author? As to the use of negative terms, as 
that of immutable, to express aflfirmative qualities, lan- 
guage, has to be forgone, if this part of it be denied. It is 
unreasonable and absurd, because unusual and unwarranted 
by the usage of human language. This being i^ God, the 
author of perfection — man's model. His immutability is in 
existence, else he could not be God. Since the critic is 
hypocritic in words, he is amenable in the use of nature ap- 
plied to God, who cannot have it as God. Man has na- 
ture. The balance of his criticism on God's immutability 
is decidedly weak, as "to acknowledge in him different 
modes of being, different volitions, different ways of act- 
ing." What does it amount to, when God is God ? 
Where would God be if changeable in existence or princi- 



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pies? His element is that of God, whose Godly autograph 
is visible in the mighty universe. His objections to God's 
not willing that this universe ''might not yet exist" at a 
time anterior to that of its existence, is the weakest possi- 
ble. How was there time before the universe defined it, 
and its revolutions became the exponents? Atheism con- 
founds matter with Deity, time with eternity, argument 
with sophistry. Who would wish monotheist castigation 
of all atheistical speculations? There is no necessity. 

213. The expression of " necessarily existing," referring 
to the self-existence of Deity as quoted from Dr. Clarke by 
the Baron, is necessarily erroneous to maintain the veiy 
nice distinction, a supremacy of that distinction. Self-ex- 
istence of Deity is absolute existence. The fourth propo- 
sition of Dr. Clarke, as quoted, betrays error in speaking 
of the "substance or essence" of Deity. 

Either proposition premises the necessary existence of 
cause and effect, which necessarily refer to antecedent cau- 
sation. Deity is omnipresent by principles that represent 
him. As a monotheist, I conceive nothing of him as to 
immateriality; certainly, he is not spiritual at all; he is im- 
mutable in principles that regulate all matter. 

We might as well deny the existence of the President of 
this Union, as to affirm that because we have only seen the 
Governor of our resident State, that therefore the last could 
only be the ruler — as to affirm that because the identity of 
Deity was not visible, that he did not exist, seeing that his 
principles represent him. Are the principles of govern- 
ment, national and universal, personifications? What in- 
sanity! Still less are they abstractions. They both repre- 
sent and vindicate their rulers. A pagan mind might talk 
of the '' the incomprehensibility of the divinity;" and a tur- 
bulent man, destitute of patriotism, might premise the same 
ungrateful folly about the unseen constitutional representa 
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tive President; but all such nonsense does not alter the 
facts of the premises. 

In the fifth proposition of Dr. Clarke, quoted by the Ba- 
ron, the first says, ''the self-existent being must of necessity 
be eternal." This places the atheist and polytheist in the 
same company. What but the monotheist institution can 
make honest people of both? The mormon is as good as 
any polytheist by faith. The same blow that cuts down 
the first, or mormon, overwhelms the christian. So the 
same hypothesis, or dogma necessity, that builds up the 
polytheist Clarke, upholds the Baron. Clarke's theology 
exists on the same basis as the Baron's. 

Naturology.— They both look to the paternity of neces- 
sity; and matter, then, of the Baron, is the equal of the 
Methodist's abortion. The Baron says, ''we shall further 
observe, that matter, not being capable of annihilation, ex- 
ists necessarily, consequently will never cease to exisf 
Matter in the universe is conserved by the Creator, him of 
absolute eternal existence, through immutable principles 
that rule necessity, cause and effect. This is the solution 
of matter that is precluded from capacity of annihilation, 
if inherent. 

Sixth proposition of Dr. Clarke says, "The self-exist- 
ent being must of necessity be infinite and omnipresent." 
That word necessity is as fatal to the polytheist Clarke as 
the atheist D'Holbach, and gives the triumph to the mono- 
theist God of absolute existence. 

214. It will hardly profit the Baron to chaffer with the 
methodist about infinite being negative, as both abortions 
are ruled in necessity of Deity. Seventh proposition of Dr. 
Clarke: "The self-existent being must of necessity be but 
one." The same fatality of the polytheist puts him in the 
power of the atheist, and both in that of their monotheist 
God, who is mentality-faculty, as evinced by universal idea- 



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faculty. God is an absolute free agent, and has perfected 
his universe by principles necessarily conservative; as causa- 
tor, he has instituted cause and effect to their consumma- 
tion, the universe. By that position he is the perfect 
Providence of creation, and exhibits the responsibility of a 
God to the whole. 

On the relations that exist, religion defines the rule, and 
exempts the absolute Creator from any other obligation; so 
that what atheists have essayed on this point is idle. No 
being has the right to think, speak, or act aught of Deity, 
or his monotheist institutions, but what normal principles 
justify. This, and this alone, holds all minds responsible, 
and condemns forever all conventionalisms of polytheism 
and atheism. 

217. Necessity is the mighty word with Clarke, and con- 
demns his position about Deity: nor is the Baron advanced 
any about " the idea of perfection is an abstract, metaphysi- 
cal, negative idea, which has no archetype, or model, exte- 
rior to ourselves." Where can such be applied to mortals? 
All men are perfect men necessarily; but God is a perfect 
God absolutely. When it is premised of him that he is 
perfect in goodness, justice, truth, principle, he is absolutely 
perfect as their very Creator. Man may excel in all these 
qualities to the extent of his faculties; but the difference 
is to two beings, as the Creator excels the creature. This, 
then, is unfair in the Baron. Where is the negation? Did 
a few choice sophisms, that wound up polytheism, puff the 
Baron up as the dictator of this mighty field? Verily, he 
has played it very freely and dogmatically. 217. *' Is God 
perfect, relative to his works?'' Altogether, as his universe 
is a perfect universe. Does not order rule disorder? Do 
not principles triumph in vindication of Deity's perfection? 
"Do not all the religions of the world suppose a God con- 
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fying his marvellous works?'^ No sir! Religion has never 
disclosed any such thing. Demagogical faiths of political 
conventionalism have had the impudence and hardihood 
to deal on such false pretences. As God is perfect in his 
universe beyond cavil, he is of universal utility to his beings. 
What more can grateful rationality desire? The God of 
nature is the monotheist satisfactory demonstration. He 
is the perfect model to mae, in the noblest being of men- 
tality-faculty. When mentality pronounces him perfect, it 
has reached the consummation of ideas of excellence; it has 
exhausted all the treasury of thought, word, and deed of his 
ov^n chart, charter, and revelation. God has no human per- 
fections, for he is their model author, to insure all the rela- 
tions that can exist. 

218. The Baron says, *'an eternal being cannot have re- 
lations with perishable and transitory beings.'^ This is the 
quintessence of sophistry. Who but an eternal faculty can 
avail for their best good? His revelation does not suppose, 
but positively, absolutely, without reserve, demonstrates his 
absolute existence, whence emanate all perfections of all 
types, physical, mental, social, moral, and religious. It pre- 
mises His providence of mind with function capable of 
reaching mentality, whose progressive sublimity surmounts 
on this earth even the universe. The theological God is 
perfectly inconsistent, and therefore cannot be recognized 
by his revelation; Deity of his revelation is the absolute af- 
firmation of all ideas. The God of particular revelations 
is a negation of consistent ideas, and the atheistical neces- 
sary nature is an inconsistent negation of independent and 
absolute existence. The universal organization by mono- 
theist Deity acts on all the senses of organized beings, as 
far as competent in functions. 

224. "Motion, then, is co-eternal with matter.'^ This is 
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the particies of the universe have acted one upon the other, 
in virtue of. their energies, of their peculiar essences, of their 
primitive elements, and of their various combinations. These 
particles must have combined in consequence of their anal- 
ogy or relations, attracted and repelled each other, have 
acted and reacted, gravitated one upon the other, been 
united and dissolved, received their forms and been changed 
by their continual collisions.'^ Here is a proposition that 
bespeaks cause and effect throughout : first, particles of 
matter have acted one upon the other, in virtue of their 
energies, of their peculiar essences." How did they possess 
originally this conglomerate, combined virtue? That is the 
question. If all have distinct primary elements, the infer- 
ence would be legitimate; but when did they act ever inde- 
pendent of the universe ? Then atheism actually begs the 
question. ''These particles must have combined," implies 
a distinct power, obligation, over and above, independent 
of the universe — that is, an organization, a universal combi- 
nation; and that is the premise of this proposition, ''from 
all eternity," which is fatal to " these particles must have 
combined in consequence of their analogy or relat'ons, down 
to collisions." These are two distinct periods of what was 
meant by the Baron to be understood as only one by the 
reader or disciple. How, Baron, could there be a universe, 
if tliese particles had to combine, and that, too, in conse- 
quence of their analogy or relations? That it was an an- 
terior universe, he says a few lines below, "in a whole, of 
which the parts are essentially in motion, there is no occa- 
sion for an acting power distinguished from itself ;" and to 
confirm it, "the whole must be in perpetual motion by its 
own peculiar energy." But this is fatal to his universe, 
"the general motion, as we have elsewhere proved, has its 
birth from the partrculaf. iDotion," &c. It is impossible for 
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could be effcctu il in a mass of matter to organize the whole 
into universal relations, that are essentially necessary at 
first? That motive independent power exceeds any laws of 
astronomy that is legitimate, for matter to secure relations 
of universal matter, or for universe to be organized "from 
all eternity," and still the particles of the universe combin- 
ing, and of course organizing! What can be more incon- 
gruous ! What a chimera of atheistical mud ! 

Tell us how your universe was ''from all eternity?" If 
it were organized, its part.cles were combined, organized, 
and had normal universal action, motion, too. But this is 
an absolute absurdity, for organization had to be in abey- 
ance to antecedent motion. In the second place, your dis- 
jointed matter particles had to operate normal combinations 
and organizations of this vast and mighty consummation of 
brilliant orbs and their systems with exact equilibrium. 
Will you deify your particles of matter to organize from 
all eternity? Infatuated being, your position is fatal to 
your "from all eternity," for it is often in both atheistical 
dilemmas. And yet absurd as all this, the degraded poly- 
theist, the toady of the foul union with tory kings and 
butchering partisans, says to pagan mind, take my system 
or take the atheist's! I should have thought better of 
the Baron, who affects so many fine sentiments, had he not 
used artifice in sophisticating his views by abstract mystery 
of words. 

How obtain your universe without previous organiza- 
tion ? and how obtain the last without adequate motive 
power? It is easy enough in the universal organization, J I 
that of course never began necessarily "'from all eternity," 
to have universal motion. But necessarily, independent 
motion w^as absolutely essential to move matter, and noth- 
ing less than mentality-faculty could be adequate; so that 
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ter. There is but one eternal Being who holds absolute 
existence, and that monotheist, declared by his own auto- 
graph. His infinity, immutability, omnipresence, and om- 
niscience are duly represented and vindicated perfectly by 
normal principles, to which mentality must ever look. 
Hence the only logical conclusion is, that matter can be 
easily appreciated in its normal functions and relations in 
the universe, that is subsequent to matter in its primitive 
state, and its necessary composite, the anterior of which 
cannot be appreciated independent of antecedent motive 
power, since, as the Baron says mirthly, ''that matter is 
not a free agent, since it cannot act otherwise than it does, 
in virtue of the laws of its nature or its existence," &c. 

Of course matter could not act out of the universe as in 
it, and that the universe could not exist ''from all eternity," 
is absolutely certain from its complex, composite nature, 
that required precedent organization. Nature could not, 
did not exist, till the existence of the universe, as the birth 
of the universe was her birth. The creation of the uni- 
verse gave birth to nature ; hence she has not always been 
self-existent. 

229. " It is an incoutestible truth that God exists neces- 
sarily, and the same necessity obliges him to exist always 
and everywhere." This is quoted as Sir I. Newton's theory 
of Deity, altogether untenable as Clarke's, seeing that ab- 
solute existence had a supreme in necessity. No wonder 
that atheism could vanquish the most puissant minds when 
perverted by polytheism. But even the Baron falls into 
the same analogous error, as the polytheistic God and 
atheistic nature are both ruled by necessity. He says, 
"the necessary existence of the Divinity is precisely the 
thing in question." 

231. The Baron replies to the deists; he suys he objects 
to their regulated motion, the invariable order of the uni- 



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verse as referable to any other cause but 'Hbe necessary 
consequence of the laws of matter;" but then he has to 
admit that "it cannot cease to act in the manner it does, 
so long as the same causes act in it;" and yet he merely 
changes the terms of answer. Universal principles rule all 
order. What a demand of atheism, "these elements have 
occasion only for their properties, whether particular or 
united, and motion which is essential to them," to do what? 
Make a universe of atheism All this is tantamount to con- 
cession of the universe to atheists. But all this is an en- 
tire chimera. "Nature is not a work; she has always been 
self-existent," says the Baron. We have seen that it is 
utterly impossible for the eternal self-existence of the uni- 
verse, as she is composite. Such would be the result if the 
Being of Deity was complex; hence his unity is his alnfghty 
virtue of his absolute existence, that all polythe'sts have 
stultified themselves in perverting to their idol multiplicity. 

"Nature, then, makes nothing but what is necessary;" 
(236;) "it is not by fortuitous combinations and by chance- 
throws that she produces the beings that we see; all her 
throws are sure, all the causes she employs have infallibly 
their effects." Same page — "It is not chance that has 
produced the universe, it is of itself that which it is; it exists 
necessarily and from all eternity." And yet of God (same 
page) "it has neither been possible — to say anything reason- 
able of him." Then atheism does not exist, for the essence 
of existence consistence is not in it. A change of authors 
does not change qualities. If nature, Mr. Athe'st, does 
right, surely Deity, the author, has the just credit. To 
meet his summary, I say nature does not exist from eter- 
nity, as she is complex by organization, that has necessarily 
antecedent causation. 

23'7. " Matter did not always exist, for its existence is 
natural composite, referable to motion, and alienated from 



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the sabs 3q:ieiit rel itioiiship universal. The word spirit is 
iiuidequ ite for ai.-qiite causation, a worthless in idea. 
Tlie Biroi has "nature" a;2:aiii abo.it D^ity. Taat is non- 
sens cal as the theolo^'ical sp'rit. God is not complex, 
composite; hen.^e he has no n iture — no birth or emana- 
tion from an ori^^inal. It is necessary to examine every- 
tiiln^, atheistical critic, to do full and comprehensive justice. 
Athe sts and polytheists have atUiched very peculiar ideas 
to De^ity, while h.s monotheist institutions vindicate him 
as monotheist over nn versal. 

233. *'On!y a n iture acting after the invariable laws, of 
wi o:n the v>M>rld is the theatre, of whom men, as well as 
all other beings, are the vvorks and the instruments obliged 
to accompl.sh the eternal decrees of necessity." What 
co.itrad c ions! Nature acts after invariable laws — is, then, 
subordinati' to what? An (-terual necessity. St. 11 it is said 
abundantly, nature is eternal. Tiie eternal decrees of 
nec< ssily ruh- by pr or ty and faculty all the time, the last 
obv oa>]y. -'is'atare, ot* whh-h the essence always was to 
exist and to move iise f; which cannot be coaceived to be 
without properties, co.i^equently, without motion; of which 
all tho pai'ts are inact'.on, reaction, and continual efforts; 
where a single moleiule cannot be found that is in absolute 
repose, and vvhic i does not necessarily occupy the place 
as igned to it by necessary laws." What occasion is there 
to seek out of matter a motive power to give it play, since 
its mni oa flows iiccessar.ly from its existence, its extent, 
i:s forms, its gravity, &c., and since nature in inaciion 
woald an I aig( r l)e iiatnrc?'' Ilowcomts nature, a ( om- 
pos tc orgaiii/avf 'on, to ex'st alway>? This is a solecism, 
for the org uiizat on precedes her exstencr; that absolves 
all t e r^'Sb t demnl shes its (sstMice and pro})ert".es compo- 
site N()^->, w uaiiM^ i!i0to:i? Tiia.r is in consetpience of 
exist'aK'i' that h is qtiaii.ic .tioas of negative character. 
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Whence the necessary laws ? Organization is the consist- 
ency thereof. The necessary laws carry faculty, not ab- 
stract, but potential; hence they refer to plenipotentiary 
omnipotence — causation antecedent. This is the motive 
power to give existence, ''since its motion flows necessarily 
from it," and above all nature. 

238 and 239. It is not only matter that atheism requires 
by assent, but its property, quality, action, motion. To 
grant all this — that is, to admit its rights — the Baron must 
demonstrate its eternal existence, that guarantees all abso- 
lutely. But necessity destroys its vested rights. Its sup- 
posed eternity property has this qualification of necessity, 
altogether fatal to the whole question. ''As soon as it 
has properties without which it could not exist, it must act 
by virtue of those properties;'^ good. How get those pro- 
perties ? The Baron flies to nature, the universe in full 
organization. Oh, the shifts, tricks of atheism, as the 
polytheists, to prove their position. Their bible proves 
that. Who endorses the bible? Priests of their type — 
that is, counterfeiters — prove their own false currency in 
their own circle. The modern pagans endorse the ancient 
pagan books. What makes books truer than the same 
men's words ? In other words, are false pretences in 
books truer than the words of the authors ? 

This sophism of the Baron is the one of sophisms par 
excellence. "The necessary existence" meets and van- 
quishes the whole, because that demonstrates antecedent 
causation ; torture as he wdll, make as many summaries as 
he chooses, this consummates all. A necessary existence 
is in necessary abeyance to supremacy. They affect a 
saviour for their own endorsed platform, that is absolutely, 
essentially, and hopelessly fatal to their whole proposition, 
as that entirely destroys, annihilates God's very existence, 
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232. The Biron, respecting Gocl, asks, "where shall we 
place this workiiaii?'' In God's moiiotheist positioa. I 
shall pass over the balance of this atheistic gas. 

240. He treats his own nature as quite inferior; "nature 
has been, is, and ever will be occupied with producing, 
with destroying, with doing and undoing, with folloving 
laws resulting from its necessary existence.'^ Her exisl- 
euce is in abeyance to necessary laws; of course she has a 
lawgiver — that is absolute demonstration. "She acts ne- 
cessarily, because she exists necessarily/' Nature, then, is 
completely a subord'nate; " she has no intelligence or end," 
and has to execute the will of him who has both. 

What is the difference between God and nature? That 
of immortality and mortality, eternal happiness and earthly 
existence. A mere necessary destiny, "necessity which is 
no more than the sum total of those laws which nature is 
obliged to follow," and the wise Legislator who gave them. 
The Baron has renewed his "if it cannot be annihilated, it 
cannot have commenced to be." In the first, God's uni- 
verse has conservative principles that exclude annihilation; 
and the last is nugatory, as it has God for creator. Sophis- 
ticate as atheistical and polytheistical speculators will, the 
monotheist causation is absolutely demonstrated, cannot be 
abrogated. Any mind that comes short of a monotheist 
God is that much pagan forever. Atheists and polytheists 
have distorted all the facts of nature to suit their special 
pleadings. The contradictions are those of faith-idolatries, 
not of religion. 

245. The Baron has as many organic contradictions as 
polytheists: "Nature is the cause of everything; she is self- 
existent: she will always exist; she is her own cause; her 
motion is a necessa'7 consequence of her necessary exist- 
ence." This position, as every other athei^Hcal, is suicidal, 
fatal to itself by inconsistence. If her cxl. ^ence is neces- 



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sary, how, then, can she be the cause of everything, much less 
her own cause. It is impossible, when atheistic necessity 
puts her into full possession of cause and effect. A neces- 
sary existence involves an absolute causation, not that of 
nature, which would be a complete solecism. A necessary 
existence is that of cause and effect, as necessity implies 
forever ; therefore nature is caused, and can only be cause 
and effect, whence all refer to an antecedent supreme, that 
is the cause, mover, conservator of everything that relates 
to effect: the cause of all things is absolute to effect. The 
last part of the proposition confirms this absolutely, as her 
motion, the mighty lever of atheistic requisitioo and pre- 
liminary, ''is a necessary consequence of her necessary ex- 
istence," and is necessarily and absolutely a derivative, not 
primary function. Thus nature presents no language to her 
zealous idolaters to rescue her from her necessary obliga- 
tions, her own fealty, her own acknowledged abeyance to 
the almighty mentality-faculty. Quotations from ancient 
writers of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Hindostan, Chinese, 
Assyrian, and Persian schools only sink deeper atheistical 
foggyism. It is ignorance leading stupidity, rendering ob- 
scurity more obscure. The absolute vital power, in whose 
unity all omnipotence and omniscience are concentrated, 
animates all nal^ure, the universe. 

In the union of Deity is concentrated all mentality-facul- 
ty, whose perfect revelation in universal ideas is addressed 
most happily and 'perfectly to all mentality. Atheists, then, 
ignore him most absurdly, when they deify nature, a being 
that lacks the God-element absolutely. Which is the great- 
est, most glaring, the presumption or ignorance of infidels? 
who ignore their own inconsistency in blaming the author 
of nature, and yet say of the last, the agent of the first, 
that she acts necessarily, "and of which nothing can de- 
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246. The wise comprehension of mentality, that recog- 
nizes tlie normal progress of mind, recognizes first as well 
as final causes. The Yevy fact that the thonsand faith-or- 
ganizations and factions of the world, for perfidious and 
mercenary purposes, fabricating their own pagan idolatry 
on pagan mind, exhibits the absolute necessity of the uni- 
verse being the revelation for a fixed and uniform standard 
of morals, religion, and government, through its supreme 
model. This is the only great light by which mortals of 
existence on earth can properly read and understand, 
thoroughly appreciate in ratio to the means. The best 
means are the whole comprehension; any less is a defect, 
and proves the delinquency, as polytheistic visions attest. 
Man is not to regard Deity a moment by innate ideas, an 
absurdity by no individuals, but through the universe, as 
far as practicable. Mentality must supersede pagan mind, 
as the universe supersedes all the pagan faith concoctions. 
Deity is not an arbitrary being of conventionalism, as the 
faiths of the world pretend, but the immutable unit of all 
conservative principles. 

247. The doctrines of theology have no harmony, as they 
have no normal principles. None but pagan mind could 
pretend to such idea. They give substantial reason to the 
flimsy superficial apologists of atheism, to pretend that re- 
ligion is non-ex'stent, if such be it. The best deed for poly- 
theists is to abnegate all such hurtful nonsense, and seek 
better employment. Let all the world array itself under 
the banners of demonstration of the monotheist God, as 
the only certainty of truth before mentality; then "every 
man can be fully assured of the existence of this being :'' 
universal evidence attests ''the certitude of the existence of 
the divinity." Deity has elaborated a universe the very 
best, perfectly adapted to his creation, bestowing the great- 
est good to the greatest number — that is, the whole. Man, 

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as a free agent, has to do the best for his sphere, to con- 
form as the analogue of Deity in doing good, best to all. 
If there be anything wrong, it is in man, who has to con- 
form to the immutable principles conservative of his being 
and happiness. Man has to pay adoration to Deity, but 
justice to mentality and monotheist institutions. 

It is remarkable, that the very qualities that bespeak God 
a Deity, invalidate him in atheistical sophistry. As well 
deprive the circumference of its centra, as the universe of 
its central power. It is this that radiates all the energy 
of universal gravitation. Deity is the noble example of 
perfection for man to copy best from, with profoundest re- 
spect and adoration. But, alas! polythel-tic faith has put 
forth its various idols, books, and priests, the pagan models 
for pagan minds. 

251. The author seems to have the theological inconsis- 
tencies, as the God for the universe. What fallacy! Men- 
tality adopts the universe as the work, and the author as 
the architect ; all that is tenable, demonstrative, and no 
more is legitimate. The Baron seems to consider theism, 
as he calls it, very abundant among the ancients: but they 
were all polytheists. The monotheist is the only tenable 
position. The Jews were certainly not monotheists, for they 
were pagan polytheis's. I have a right to demand the 
strict construction of language. ** Socrates was a theist." 
What nonsense ! He was a polytheist, and merely re- 
former. Jesus was of the same order. Mahommetanism is 
polytheism certain. The American Government presents 
the first evidence of a monotheist government on earth, as 
far as I know; hence it is the first reh'gious government. 
The monotheist believes that all things are governed rightly 
by princi[5les, and tliat man's position is relatively thereto. 
Hear this inconsistent atheist for the hundredth time rail- 
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an intelligent and omnipotent workman, who only produces 
to destroy?'^ Yet this is more applicable to his godless na- 
ture. But he has mixed up the ism and polytheism as in- 
consistently. The picture is like his atheism, worthless. 
It is utterly impossible to have the world act on normal 
princi[)les by atheism or polytheism, as they both establish 
conventionalisms that involve the world into antagonisms 
and inextricable confusion, that end in massacre, bloodshed, 
and carnage to this day ; hence monotheist institutions 
alone are conservative, to civil as to physical organization. 
The Baron speaks of " the revealed religions.'^ (265.) There 
is but one, and that is through God^s chart and document. 
This, so far from ''announcing a despotic, jealous, vindic- 
tive, and selfish God, who knows no law, &c.," denounces 
all conventionalism that does. There is one nation that fol- 
lows no such conventionalism; "it is, however, some divin- 
ity of ths temper which all nations adore." Conventional- 
ism renders man savage; religion is monotheist, and civilizes 
him. What can fatal necessity do in all society? This is 
atheistic conventionalism. This is all that atheistic reason 
can do. Is the world to be sacrified to miserable conven- 
tionalism? or will it be conserved by monotheist institu- 
tions? Will the pagan devotee of mosaic conventionalism 
sacrifice it? The abolitionists of monotheist institutions 
must bear a weighty burden of remorse. 

2T2. The Baron speculates on the crimes of the world 
being committed without compunction of conscience, if the 
delinquent has merely to be restrained by the presence of 
h's God. " What purpose, then, does the conviction of the 
existence of this God of his omniscience, &c., answer?" 
Where, 0, atheist, are his conservative representative prin- 
ciples? That at once is a universal volume. 

274. "The most religious men are commonly misanthro- 
pists, extremely useless to the world, and injurious to them- 



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selves." Who, then, are religious im n? ascet e priest-rant- 
ing preachers? partisans of faith- organizations? they are 
that much destitute of religion. Away, then, with pagan 
views. Baron. Did you know what religious men were? 1 
consider you hive mistaken the pagan demagogues of faith 
therefor. How horrid the iniquity of conventionalism, to 
enslave even language and ideas, 

275. Priests are not the representatives of religion, w4ien 
they preach of an irrascible, vindictive God. They preach 
clap-trap conventionalism as much as athe'sts. who give 
"the necessity of things." How advantageous it is for both 
to hold the idea of rel gion instead of faith. If it be faith, 
let it be said, and not say religion. The po ytheist permits 
his religion to secure the mind; the a: heist adopts it to 
repel mind from *'the sinister ideas whicli all religions, 
in every country, give." They both act as if the universe 
depended on the r coaventionalism. It is religion, not 
faith, atheist, that the mghty pio )K'm of man is to be 
solved. Tliis premises the immortality of the soul to perfect 
it. What a glorious d spensation in monot! est ustitutions 
of a God, wdio ru'es necessity a-id its nature to h's normal, 
conservative principles. Tnis is the only fixed basis. Ths 
regulates the p iss'ons of men in the right direct on. The 
oracles are plain sense, deduced from the universal docu- 
ment. They need no priests nor preachers. F.=ith-organi- 
zations are such schemes by the last that will g ve them the 
greatest temporal advantages from the people. They are 
policies of government, cannot be any more from their very 
nature. What, then, do the peoj)le need of faith-ministers? 
To make their own peace with God? The mnisters have 
their minds full for themselves, l)esi(]es responsibility can 
only attach to individuality. Tiie people, then, have to act 
for themselves, otherwise they nnwiitingly- l>e( on e polythe- 
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ever made religion. Without religion, that excludes both 
conventionalism and faith, the world is but an assemblage 
of misanthropes and antagonisms. The sooner the world 
excludes theologico-pagan doctrines that enslave mind, the 
better. Its normal principles can alone rule and regulate 
the moral as the physical universe. What otherwise can 
restrict the unprincipled autocrats of this world, the Neroes, 
Nicholases, Constantines, Joe Smiths, infallible popes, who 
hide themselves under their ecclesiastical pretexts? Their 
special faith-pleadings will do for pagan mind of unprinci- 
pled church and faith associations, but are abhorrent to the 
religion of free minds! What is that state of mind but 
low or high pagan, that premises protectorates of the faith- 
organizations of other sovereigns' subjects? What but such 
premises the gory game of war, that violates all normal 
principles? What guarantee is there for proper society, im- 
perial ukases, papal bulls? How long will faith-iniquity 
menace the world? As long as mind continues pagan, and 
IS satisfied with pagan idolatry and bribes. It is none of 
my business, say thousands and millions of the human race. 
It is the bounden duty of all minds to exclude all pagan 
evils from society, and then the people would get rid of their 
tyrants. We hear it said, natural and revealed religion. 
What pagan nonsense and debasement! God Almighty 
created religion. Who made natural and revealed faith, 
but pagan priest-hucksters? Let atheists lay aside thei^ 
preconceived notions that polytheistical faiths, miscalled re- 
ligions, are to be the only consideration in this great ruling 
question. In this incipient monotheist age, so far as mind 
is concerned, better hopes may be entertained. The legal 
and imperial outrages on life, liberty, property, and reputa- 
tion are being considered more, if not more restricted. 
Bat the great body of the people must act. There are men 
acting without system, expecting to make all general im- 



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pressions by their individual notions. Owen, with his mil- 
lennium, and Cobden, with his peace-society resolutions, 
may affect to visit nations and emperors, but all such will 
be mere patchworks, until the world secures monotheist in- 
stitutions. It is perfectly idle to talk to monarchs for peace 
society, till imperial ukases, papal infalLb'.lity, and monar- 
chical decrees are precluded, foreclosed, about faith-organi- 
zations. As conscience is moulded by education, W'hat hold 
has man on such that are disciplined by their faith-institu- 
tions, that hold popular mind as chattel, and hold them- 
selves only responsible to God? All the free w^ill that is of 
free mind is held in abeyance to their clique of faith, and 
that makes the rights of kings divine, those of priests sa- 
cred. Atheists deny it, or merge it all to their destiny of 
necessity. Free mind of the people can only make free 
will of a clear conscience in religion; otherwise why remorse 
of conscience? This is the legitimate deduction from ra- 
tional monotheist premises. How, then, can the normal 
conscience, and its normal remorse, be normally recognized, 
than by the normally constituted chart of its normal Cre- 
ator? 

It is clearly evident, then, that mentality can only rescue 
m:nd from the conscience of conventionalism and its remorse 
by normal principles of religion. 

306. Atheism is, then, incompatible with morality, be- 
cause it has necessity, the very dregs of conventionalism, in 
company with polytheistic faiths. They both are its accom- 
plices. The conscience must be schooled rightly, and con- 
ventionalism can only corrupt it that much, no matter what 
kind, mosaic or any sectarian. Conventionalism is the poly- 
theistic law of self-interest, corroborated by all history. 
Mystify all proofs of Deity by his works, say polytheists, as 
that throws the only proof on their bibles. Who mystify 
worse than the atheists? Of course, then, both are in con- 



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ventionalism against the sole proof of Deity. Atheism and 
polytheism are then absolutely dangerous to society, as they 
yield up to conventionalism; that is no generous friend to 
the vested rights of mind, when it abstracts all it can by 
its despotism. The great decisive question is, the God of 
the universe that insures him the perfect model of man, or 
conventionalism of both kinds, polytheistic and atheistic, 
that is ever a treacherous despot on pagan mind. The last 
can never be trusted by free minds, that hold all their con- 
servative institutions of a monotheist God. Conventional- 
ism, that substitutes its faith for the monotheist principles 
of Deity, is ever fatal to its pagan confidants. Normal 
principles must ever define education, that is, to form con- 
science and will — the right element for right development. 

307. *'Is there, then, no remorse, but for those who be- 
lieve in a God?^^ How can the Baron appeal to remorse 
of conscience, when that idea is stultified in denial of free 
will, and interdicting it under compulsion of atheistic ne- 
cessity? But how futile is remorse even, of futile conven- 
tionalism! The remorse must be of very low grade at best, 
and of inefficient good, as it had lost the right direction. 
All conventionalisms are useless, noxious for the supreme 
good of mind, man, society; as proof supereminent, excel- 
lent, that the Baron has only looked into his subject super- 
ficially, he has argued against theological metaphysics 
ostensibly as the real ground-work, when all were mere 
conventionalisms, and all his books are only anti-conven- 
tionalisms, not touching the main subject of monotheist in- 
stitutions at all. What, then, are atheistical and polythe- 
istical speculations worth? Are they not most dangerous? 
Mind has to examine all speculations with most deliberate 
care, and above all, metaphysical speculations, lest it be 
stultified, and overwhelmed altogether. 

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had to pay enormously for its errors, by the great laws 
and principles of existence, that owes such a normal debt. 
Conventionalism, the fault of pagan mind and age, can 
never rule passions, for it perverts them to perfidious pur- 
poses. None but perfidious conventionahsm ever fash- 
ioned a cruel, vindictive, and jealous God. There can be 
no model but the Perfector of the universe: conventionalism 
can originate no normal principles; its doctrines are assump- 
tions; necessarily all fanaticism is of this character. As all 
conventionalism is susceptible of licentious abuse, it should 
never be clothed with monarchical, ecclesiastical, or fidu- 
cial power; hence all power should be constitutional, repre- 
sentative, and invariably responsible to the supreme power of 
the people. Every earthly mind must be ever held respon- 
sible for public duties to the public, the people. How can 
the czar, or pope, or any faith defender, be less than des- 
potic, who is not amenable to the people for ecclesiastical 
as imperial power? No man is pre-eminently entitled to 
the name of a religious ruler, as that title can be owned by 
no other than Deity. The very height of religious conduct 
and mentality is in the people, who trust themselves to no 
ecclesiastical organizations as religious, for thereby hangs 
the national ruin and degradation of an irresponsible asso- 
ciation and faction. 

The passions of man are liable to be let loose, wild, fa- 
natic, and superstitious, mixed with ambition and avarice, 
a vindictive and insatiable thirst for blood, plunder, rapine, 
and pillage, unless duly restrained from their storm and 
tempest. What can do it? Conventionalism? Alas! that 
sharpens the dagger of the worst of crimes, heaped on 
crimes. Conventionalism gives the fullest scope to crimes. 
It is a failure atheistically, polytheistically. The universe 
needs for nothing less than the universe demands, the right 
conservative, no less morally than physically, religiously and 



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socially than mentally. Now it is certain, positive demon- 
stration, that the conservation that perfects the physical 
must also perfect the social order. It is the same omnipo- 
tent power that rules both through his monotheist institu- 
tions. 

Conventionalism, then, as a complete failure, utterly in- 
compatible with religion, is a chimera that never makes the 
proper distinction between vice and virtue, and that con- 
founds the foundation of morality. Americans may well 
thank their God that they have a government that adopts 
monotheist institutions. Let the nations of the world pay 
their highest respect to its principles, for in them they can 
be honored, and rendered happy. 

310. The Baron often alludes to virtue as essential to 
society; but whence can be the standard but in the author- 
model of all virtue? Surely he cannot j&nd it in his neces- 
sity. It is not the name of virtue, but the essential quali- 
ties comprehended adequately. Priests have corrupted re- 
ligious sentiments. Both atheists and polytheists corrupt 
the faculty of mind, in preventing man from reaching his 
fundamental vested rights of universal government in so- 
ciety. It is necessary, above all others, that the people 
should advance in this science; but they are kept back by 
mercenary foggies, who forfeit every title to respect as good 
people. Mentality vindicates the existence of Deity, as in- 
dubitably demonstrated. Conventionalism, not religion, is 
fatal to the human species. 

318. What can that be? What less than the dictation 
of autocrats? And is that dictation codified a bible? And 
is that man that disbelieves the conventionalism a heretic ? 
Its dictation a bible ? He a heretic to the laws in abey- 
ance thereto, and accomplices of its guilt? 

324. The idea of God, say what atheists will, cannot be 
eradicated, divorced from mentality, the guardian of its 
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demonstration. ''Atheism is not suitable for the majority 
of mankind." Then that position is fatal to it forever. 
Away with it. Monotheist institutions suit all mankind. 
They direct mind never to unite with faith, or political fac- 
tions, but pursue its great interest to the sublimity and just- 
ness of mentality. 

330. It is mentality that yields to the evidence of all the 
senses, the attestations of the universe. Mentality proceeds 
from the visible, that is the safest demonstration to that 
cause which explains everything. God is certainly no in- 
nate-idea delusion, as all conventionalisms have of their sub- 
stitutes and fictions, for it takes the whole universe in one 
grand burst of magnanimity to demonstrate his absolute 
existence. Thus mind towers over corporeal, universal rela- 
tions, that it penetrates, permeates, and pervades like rays 
of light, to its analogue. This cause, then, explains, be- 
yond all conventionalism, the origin of the universe, the na- 
ture of man, the faculties of the soul; above all, God's own 
illustrious existence, absolute to nature. He governs all 
perfectly by his principles, not as the capricious ethics of 
conventionalism assume (333), or as destiny decrees. 

336. Hear the Baron: "The motive which the morality 
of nature employs is the self-evident interest of each indi- 
vidual, of each community, of the whole human species, in 
all times, in every country, under all circumstances." When 
the individual has the power, he will decide as the unprin- 
cipled have decided, to the best profits of that self-interest, 
and devise and endorse any ecclesiastico-political scheme for 
success. Man has to carry out principles by excluding all 
intermediates but responsible agents, for mere constitutional 
purposes. He must not believe any one that purposes to 
exceed these powers. 

33t. "The friend of mankind cannot be the friend of 
God." What a solecism! I will permit him to amend by 



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the God of conventionalism (343), as just as when he says, 
^'man is always subject to necessity." Why, then, remorse 
that he S23eaks of (333), especially since (101) he says, 
** in no one moment of his existence is man a free agent. 
He is not architect of his own conformation, which he holds 
from nature — he has no control over his own ideas, or over 
the modification of his brain!" Why, then, all his silly de- 
claration about the code of nature moralizing man? 

346. He said: *'But has he the power of reflecting? Hu- 
man actions are never free." If motives were thought, in- 
capable of influencing the will, why make use of morality, 
education, legislation, and even religion?" To give mind its 
normal development of mentality, I conscientiously reply. 

In his notes (p. 342), the author undertakes to annihi- 
late the idea of Deity's infinity. As well could he annihi- 
late the unlimited expansibility of the circumferences of 
concentric circles and spheres, that are multiplicable ad in- 
finitum, and guarantee the true idea of God's absolute ex- 
istence to finite mind. Be the universe what it may, it 
is comprehended by Deity from centre to circumference. 
The comprehensibility of mentality-faculty is equality of all, 
through unity-concentration. There was but one thing 
needful; that has been adequately executed by God; this 
demonstration through his monotheist institutions. His uni- 
versal creation, is the evidence. 

351. '* Good and evil suppose two principles; if there be 
only one, he must alternately be good and wicked." Evil 
is the negative of good, as cold is that of caloric. The 
Baron makes God accountable for all the vagaries and ex- 
travagances of not only all polytheists, but all atheists, of 
himself. What a self-sufficient dogmatist! His very culo- 
gium of nature gives the best of God, and refutes his in- 
consistent casuistry. 

352. ''Where are those divine oracles?" In the divine 



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records, the universal documents that prove the perfect 
ideas of a perfect Deity. If God owe man happiness, every 
relation between them is confirmed, if it be immortal. This 
proves the immortality of the soul, if anything can prove 
it. Any particular revelation in Deity would render it im- 
potent, as it demonstrates him pagan; that conceives an 
idea that destroys his own immutability. One of the lead- 
ing objections of atheism is to the invisibility of Deity, and 
some of the leading facts of the Creator, in regard to cre- 
ation, being unrevealed to man. Who can say that all that 
is not the wisest dispensation, just as future events are with- 
held for the essential blessing of mind, that would be over- 
whelmed with emotions at anticipations, making the quint- 
essence of enjoyment the veriest curse of existence. Deity 
must be judged by his normal principles, by all mentality, 
as it profits universally by them, and them certainly. 

356. "Nature, when well studied, teaches us the means 
of becoming happy, so far, at least, as our essence will per- 
mit. She informs us of the proper means of acquiring hap- 
piness." Had atheism been consistent, most if not all this 
book had been unwritten. If all this be legitimate for na- 
ture, how^ much more is it due the God of nature? As the 
Creator transcends nature in eternal existence, so far does 
the immortal happiness, conceded by the first to monotheist 
mentality, transcend that of the dissolution of atheistical 
necessity. The first is the sublimity of perfect light radia- 
tion ; the last is the agency of desperate hopelessness and 
nonentity. 

The monotheist government of the United States is a 
vast part of our nationality, enough to stamp man with the 
solidity, integrity, and candor of manly character. In all 
this mentality demonstrates that monotheism realizes to 
man his happiness on the highest means of his basis. 

"What sort of philosophy is that which, though called 



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positive, does not reach the reality of life, leaves matters 
impracticable, defective in omission, and compromises by 
commission? All philosophy leaves man to conventional- 
ism, that does not complete its system on a perfect stand- 
ard and model, and ever presents a dangerous position for 
society. 

M. Comte says: ''The idea of the universe, therefore, is 
excluded from positive philosophy; and that philosophy is, 
strictly speaking, bounded by the limits of the solar system 
in regard to definite results; and this circumscription is, as 
elsewhere, to be regarded as real progress !^^ 

Where, then, is positive philosophy? "We do not know, 
more or less, and men will probably never know, whether 
the innumerable suns that we see compose a general sys- 
tem, or any number, large or small, of partial systems, en- 
tirely independent of each other." What an admission for 
a positive philosopher! So far, then, from having positive 
science, the mind has, on this and other points, positive ig- 
norance. That position ignores the essential means that 
elevate the highest faculties. The universe cannot be ex- 
cluded from its systems no more than its relations. The 
suns balance the planets and satellites ; but what rules the 
systems ? Here positive philosophy is nonplused. When 
it ignores the supreme rule of all the systems — the universe 
— it necessarily ignores the universe, and stultifies itself. 



Review of ^'Positive Philosophy of A. Comtek — After 
reading this volume, "freely translated and condensed by 
Harriet Martineau," though I regretted that the whole 
of the author^s work had not been presented, as the con- 
densation has rendered some of his view^s obscure, no doubt, 
still I am fully satisfied of the complete and perfect tri- 
umph of the position advocated by me. I must pay a high 
tribute to his erudition, but that will not detract from the 
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justice of the subject. If any two men could have carried 
their points, Messrs. D'Hoibach and Comte could have done 
so. That they have signally failed, is due to the cause 
alone. Their great talents must have secured the prize, had 
it been practicable. 

Positive philosophy is merely to confirm the system of 
nature. All positive philosophy is to be duly appreciated, 
but mentality needs the whole solution, the comprehension 
that satisfies mentality of humanity, the whole that rules 
philosophy. 

All is abortive, if sociology is not subordinated to not 
only positive, but normal philosophy, and all to the Creator, 
or the supreme demonstrable faculty. ISo philosophy can 
ignore anything of the universe, and the highest demon- 
stration of its perfect teaching is its author. Its monothe- 
ist institution is a complete and perfect philosophy, that 
mind, progressing in this age to mentality, cannot ignore. 

The monotheist that supersedes the theological, as de- 
monstration excludes conventionalism, rules all universal 
philosophy, and subordinates all that is positive. 

One of the w-orst desecrations of the human mind is the 
metaphysical endorsement of theological conventionalisms 
for normal principles. The monotheist institution vindicates, 
as it represents, normal principles, and their normal econo- 
my. Is not M. Comte too much of an apologist for poly- 
theism in the form of Catholicism ? He introduces the word 
theological to typify all ideas of the subject. Does not his 
position signify the state of pagan mind, instead of mental- 
ity? These two absolute states exist not as to doctrines, 
but as to principles. The last presents an appetency that 
is extinguishable for the sublimest of all the future. These 
views have been confirmed, rather than weakened, by aualy 
sis of M. Comte's work. 

The non-existence of a fi.rst cause is impossible. The uni- 



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verse is a consummation of causes and effects, the elabora- 
tion, and presents the ideas to mind as a production. We 
should have to revolutionize the order of rationality to err 
from causation. The origin and purpose are to be practi- 
cably considered in sociology, as far as the positive phi- 
losophy of monotheist institutions can realize, to regulate 
society and remove all anarchy. The monotheist institution 
includes all philosophy of the highest normal order, and we 
have only to exalt positive philosophy to its completest mis- 
sion, by bringing social phenomena within monotheist com- 
prehension. Intellectual resources alone are inadequate to 
embrace the universal complex relations by mere positive 
philosophy, that looks at mere science, and ignores what 
rules it. 

How far has M. Corate missed the whole, when he has 
not yet defined the ideas that pertained to monotheist insti- 
tutions! Is it just for any philosophy that ignores to decry 
them? Social and governmental evil demonstrates the er- 
rors of mere dogmas. 

The highest demonstration of positive good is in mono- 
theist consistency, so ignored by the world, and M. Comte 
in particular. This is apparent in the mormon polytheism, 
that is as much monotheism as any other form of polythe- 
ism that M. Comte has affected to treat under that head. 
What can rectify it? Any of the old polytheistic regimes? 
Their bible originated the heresy; and there is no enormity 
of conventional despotism but what such a bible can origi- 
nate, as Moses instituted jewism exclusively, that is not to 
be adulterated with mormonism, or any other affiliations. 
What can Catholicism, the best form, according to the au- 
thor, perform? It has not the element for a noble standard. 
Admit its temples, statues, and paintings, but where are the 
great movements that redound to ennobling man? 

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of one of the noblest of monotheist institutions? How, 
then, can Catholicism be one of the forms of monotheism, 
that lays no foundation for prostitution, as mormonism or 
Catholicism does? What is its confession but a violation of 
the great principles of mind, sincerity, independence, and 
mentality? What do all its aesthetics weigh, compared with 
these? Vain and conceited is all philosopliy that does not 
duly protect them inherently, or in virtue of recognized su- 
premacy. Any philosophy, then, assumes too much that 
does not realize monotheism as the only type of religion. 

Who can then ignore monotheist institutions? AVhat na- 
tion was ever destitute of some ideas of a supreme? >.'o 
sophist can eradicate the idea of God, or his substitutes, 
from the nations, the minds of the universe, when fairly 
substantiated by its demonstration. 

The author holds up Catholicism to the highest practica- 
ble appreciation; but what an idea, to substitute philosopl.y 
for the substance! this is metaphysical. Positive philosophy 
has even its weak points. Ko philosophy can ever be found 
independent of monotheist institutions; but all is in purview 
thereof, its best exponent. 

A true monotheist revolution of the people in Europe 
would enable them to get rid of the church, its fanaticism, 
and despotism of the spoils system. What are the people 
of Europe good for, that they have not progressed to this 
point? Their rights are not respected, their good not con- 
sulted. The Emperor of Russia is the cause of the Turkish 
war, which is a murder of one hundred thousand people 
yearly. Is not this too great a sacrifice for one priest, how- 
ever imperial? 

How long will the European people see this awful game 
played for imperial gewgaws, at their horrible sacrifice? The 
world has to wake up from the logical infancy of i)agan 
mind, and use to the best advantage its effective and intel- 



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lectual powers/ that prove man a progressive, moral, and 
mental being. 

How comes he, then, to be at deadly war with his kind? 
Because monarchs have not been spoken of in their true 
light, from their power and influence. They have counter- 
acted the legitimate results of mind. In Europe all should 
have given constitutions to their people long ago to act best 
for all. 

Mentality has ever to look at two distinct departments, 
the absolute and positive. Analj'^sis ever proves the power 
that presided over organization, that required elaboration 
of design. Positive philosophy demonstrates the highest 
position of the absolute, without which proof the theologi- 
cal pagan state of mind remains uncorrected. Thus are the 
precincts of science sacred. The positive needs the mono- 
theist position for normal science, morals, and above all, for 
religion. Trace it through, and what more can it do? But 
see where the absolute elevates miud, that cannot ignore its 
God-Creator conservator, Providence giving prevision after 
provision What is the highest compliment to Deity? That 
most intellectual use of mind, that alone can exalt man; 
any other only vitalizes the animal. 

Man^s free will will give him verge, scope enough. What 
is its normal limit, as all else is normally ruled? Man has 
a normal purpose. What is that normal purpose? None 
but the normal recc^gnition of a normal Deity. This is 
mentality's function. God^s chart is his own herald, that 
should be normally appreciated by all positive philosophy. 
Its organizat on is so elaborate a design, that it forever pre- 
cludes the remotest idea of self-existence, or origin Its 
means for this demonstration are universal revelations — all 
that could be necessary. It remains for positive philoso- 
phy, thus aided, as an illustrious enlightener, to teach the 
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Reason comprehends the Creator, and places man su- 
preme of creation, causing brutes to be subservient to 
him. The reason of mentality is the comprehensive essen- 
tial difference between man and brute, humanity and ani- 
mality. If animals reason, it is only as animals for anhnal 
instinct and preservation, that never vary, but stand still in 
all ages. 

The author says, in regard to the figure of the earth, 
^'wehaveno absolute knovrledge here, anymore than in 
any other department.'^ Then all positive philosophy is 
that much an erring guide, as God, the Creator, alone is 
absolute in knowledge, and is the only guide for positive 
science governing the universe with unerring principles. 

This is the true exposition of monotheist appreciation; 
whereas M. Comte says, ''theological philosophy supposes 
everything to be governed by will, and that phenomena are, 
therefore, eminently variable and irregular, at least virtu- 
ally." So it seems that M. Comte has mistaken monothe- 
ism at least, and has ignored its excellency. As all is rela- 
tive in the universe, there is nothing absolute therein, other- 
wise an atheistic nonentity must be made out by his "chance.'' 

It seems utterly untenable that collisions or explosions, 
much less combustions, could ever take place in the univer- 
sal orbs. Positive philosophy must correct itself on that, 
and many other speculations, and has to invest itself with 
more modest assumptions, that "all the bodies of our system 
must be united to the solar mass, from which it is probable 
that they proceeded;" and above all, about its cosmogony. 
Jn this it utterly stultifies itself, in begging the question 
" about the formation of the suns themselves," and the state 
preceding the "fluidity" of the planets. 

It is hardlv worth the trouble to analvze this absurdity 
farther, as it is truly out of the domains of positive philoso- 
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M. Corate recognizes ^' that the order of the heavens is 
necessary and spontaneous.'^ A perfect solecism to any 
mind, as the first ''necessary'' implies absolute obligation, 
that the last quality '.'spontaneous" negatives. Thus it is 
manifest that mind, however well defended in its own con- 
ceit of positive philosophy, may acquire a metaphysical 
habit characteristic of pedantic vanity. 

Positive philosophy is impracticable of itself to free the 
mind from the^complication of relations that require abso- 
lute unity to rule them. All the hierarchy of science is 
subordinated to the hierarchy of perfect construction, that 
leaves no outgrowth over monotheist views, that decide 
that the hypothesis of M. Comte utterly f.iils wlsen most 
wanted in elevated science and government of man. 

I admit, with the utmost cheerfulness, that M. Comte is 
a learned man; but then mentality needs that which rules 
learning. As to philosophy being positive, what else could 
she be than positive? 

I advocate ever v/hat is true positive philosophy; but 
there is something higher, and that is absolute, that towers 
over the wavering hypothesis of thought. There is that 
element, monotheist, that sheds its benign influence on the 
mentality of humanity, and saves it harmless, no doubt, amid 
antagonisms of dissolution that translates. This is the 
source of essential police for the world, and of progressive 
developments. 

All this is worthy of mentality, the analogue of mental- 
ity-faculty, and that holds the chief excellency before Deity, 
us "there is no organ without a function." Mentality 
transcends the universe, and is relational to Deity, who is 
absolutely demonstrated. The speculations of positive phi- 
losojihy cannot separate the functionary soul from its God. 
It is clear, from all analyses of history and physiology, that 
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most erroneous ideas have prevailed about his retrogression. 
Cerebral physiology invites the most philosophical educa- 
tion on monotheist institutions. 

Man has improved instead of fallen, by proper develop- 
ments, and it is essential that mind should ever best recog- 
nize its whole duty and standard. Monotheism, then, is 
never to be discredited for temporary illusions, when it is 
the only potency to govern all the anarchies, all the faith- 
organizations, whose art and fraud are to wield the massrs, 
all the spoils party, monarchical, ecclesiastical, and military. 

Man has ever to scan his two great errors; the first, the 
infant state of mind for theologico-metaphysics; and tiie 
second, the philosopho-metaphysics; well should he require 
the verificator and verification of positive philosophy in its 
supreme conservation as the chief good, for what do the 
functions of the positive school avail short of monotheist in- 
stitutions? 

Any other rule subordinates the rational to the temporal 
power of conventionalism, that seeks to undermine the firm- 
est foundation in all social institutions. Therefore all peo- 
ple, capable of being instructed, must be duly educated by 
all normal means, especially by weekly scientific lectures, 
invariably posted up by science, to reach the best pos.t'on 
as to their organs and faculties. Where are the elements 
of utilitarianism, but in creation? Who or what is that 
which takes hold of the universe through its ideas? Mus- 
cle, mechanism of mere muscle, cerebral organs? Nothing 
less than that faculty that is competent to permeate most 
distant matter, and evolve its appreciation by reason. The 
treasures of the universe minister to mind, and will enable 
mentality to terminate the great conflict in favor of mono- 
theist institutions. 

The absolute existence of God has never been consist- 
ently carried out. His monotheist institutions are organic, 



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normal, and promotive of progress. All have to be in 
abeyance of those who demonstrate their triumphant suc- 
cess, which forms the perfect system. Opposed to this is 
the spoils-school system type. The proper co-operation of 
all components of society will elaborate the comprehensive 
economy divinely instituted. Any other is untenable, as 
the ground of M. Comte has been ingloriously surrendered. 
**At present, the anarchical tendencies of that (scientific) 
class appear to be as strong as any.'' They surrender gen- 
eralities. "It is not wonderful, then, that they have no 
interest in the entire generality which is the indispensable 
attribute of any philosophy that aspires to the moral gov- 
ernment of mankind." 

A God-creator is the only position for causation; nor can 
creation, the universe, ignore him^ its normal regulator. 
That one idea is perpetual — must and will ever be preserved. 
Man needs the universal language of positive science, a 
compensating power, that relies on the regulation of the 
universe, that is the very proof of a universal regulator. 
Man must necessarily respect antecedents, organization and 
its causes. Mind cannot ignore the universe. The author 
quotes De Maistre's aphorism, "whatever is necessary ex- 
ists." I premise whatever is necessary is created, subordi- 
nated, relational. The very premises of all atheistical or 
positive metaphysics, that establish a necessary existence, 
enable the monotheist, whose code refei s absolutely to God, 
to triumph completely over their chance-fatality, necessity- 
conventionalism. 

The author says, "the discipline prescribed by nature;" 
also, " there is certainly no natural economy more worthy 
of admiration than that spontaneous subordination which, 
first constituting the human family, then becomes the type 
of all wise, soi:ial co-ordination." This position of positive 
philosophy premises the admission of nature as sovereign. 
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What rales ? What is man's model ? Is positive phi- 
losophy to create it? Where does it exist? In the braia 
of man? Positive philosophy is good enough in its place, 
but its functions are not those of dictation. Reason, for- 
tified by best facts, holds all positive philosophy in abey- 
ance to facts, responsible itself to the same position. I can 
no more admit M. Comte's premises of positive philosophy, 
than of Catholicism being a form of monotheism. 

This is a most unexampled period of humanity of the 
world's age; but little thanks to any, but the pure elements 
of mentality, acting on the monotheist capital. If ever 
Catholicism was benignant, it, as all other faith-organiza- 
tious, traded on that very capital. No thanks to Catholi- 
cism, or any erroneous dogma or doctrine. This is very 
plain, at this age of the world. The social economy is 
elaborated by the sublimest elements that Catholicism ig- 
nores. None but a pagan and subordinate state of mind 
would have ever tolerated it or its afiQliations. Men are 
predisposed by family subordination to social subordination, 
by the God-like faculty of mentality. • The human mind is 
vastly progressive, and its mentality reaches monotheism 
by absolute demonstration, by which it ever absolutely dis- 
cards all theological and philosophical metaphysics. 

The intrinsic elements of mind are to be justly referred 
to as the cause of progress in all ages of the world; hence 
no despotic interventions, as Catholicism, Jewism, or any 
similar, can claim a particle of the triumph of mind. Men- 
tality represents and vindicates all its just claims. The very 
fact of mind's curiosity awakens a world to it. Analysis 
discloses that all ideas of faith are interpretations of con- 
ventionalism, whilst monotheism is an illustration of Deity, 
by and through the facts of the universe. It is^ then, not 
what man says is monotheism, but vrhat the universe abso- 



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lately demonstrates, consequently such are without the 
range, capacity, and function of positive philosophy. 

Monotheism takes away atheistical necessity and fate, 
with the creation by Deity. This is indispensable for all 
ages of the world, for promotion of human progress and 
happiness, and that sublimest conception of mentality in 
regard to immutable principles of the universe, and their 
perfect author. It combines the beautiful, the useful, and 
the sublime, the aesthetic and scientific; the humane, the 
truthful and good, and the moral and religious; just as mind 
appreciates and observes it. It is adapted to the universal 
benefit of mankind, and directs the wisest and purest states- 
manship. It is ever tolerant by wisest counsels, and never 
sacrifices what principles refuse. It then most wisely coun- 
teracts errors, while its brilliant examples irradiate mind. 
It never caters to a depraved or a vitiated taste, but pre- 
sents a capital that meets the reality. 



Age of Monotheism — Modification of the Theological and 
Military System. — Chap, ix., p. 599. M. Comte says, *'I 
begin with the political, because, though the predoni'nant 
action of monotheism is moral, its moral efficacy itself has 
always depended on its political existence." I congratulate 
myself that I have examined this book; and as deep as its 
friends may think it, pure monotheism is still entitlcil to 
wear its triumphs so truly won of atheism and polytheism — 
triumphs that place positive philosophy in its train. Has 
M. Comte understood his subject? Has he used the purity 
of ideas by purity of language ? 

Monotheism never depended on its political existence. 
I defy the world of Comtes on that basis. It nev( r be- 
longed to any regime. It never had to do with Rome iir 
any theological existence. He says, "When Rome htul 
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come for mouotheism to assume and complete the work of 
preparation for a new and higher social life." '^Now we 
have to attend only to the Roman Catholic form of mono- 
theism, because while Mahommedanism, the Greek faith, 
and every other form of monotheism, presents a remark- 
able general conformity with all the rest, it is the Roman 
Catholic form which has fulfilled the functions of the regime 
in Western Europe." What can the antecedents of M. 
Comte be worth, if he do not conform to the purity of lan- 
guage and ideas? I will say to him that it is absolute 
desecration to write that Catholicism under any form, 
Roman or Greek, is less than a po'ytheistic politic regime, 
whether it have trinity or any plurality of deities. 

Monotheism demonstrates one only God and his mono- 
theist institutions, not surreptitiously substituted by a 
political organization, but hotiorably endorsed by a civil 
adoption in the premises of constitutional representative 
appreciation. It recognizes no individual in any depart- 
ment of government as a religious official, as the God of 
the universe is the only religious ruler. This is the positive 
practical philosophy of its citizens. You have mistaken 
your subject, M. Comte; therefore confine yourself consist>- 
ently to polytheism, that has no "monotheistic principles," 
as it has sectarian conventionalism, its own. 

600. "As the chief attribute of the political system of 
monotheism is the introduction of a spiritual power inde- 
pendent of the temporal." Spirituality is not at all mono- 
theist, no more than political Catholicism is. They are 
temporal expedients. Monotheism la: :>:? spiritual ur 
political regime of popes as spiritual oi ^I'nijxV'ra-. rr.ierf ; Oai 
little the sacerdotal class, or any caste 0/ prelacy. 

Read and properly understand the Constitution of the 
United States, and that will be truly found the first evi« 
dence in my best appreciation of a religious, monotheist 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 221 

government, as unlike catliolicism a-s liberty is to that of 
pagan despotism. This is the mighty embodiment of the 
intellectual and the effective life, the strongest of all, as it 
embraces the best progressive expansion for human happi- 
ness. 

Here is positive practice, not sterile speculation, of spir- 
itual conventionalism. This is not enthusiasm, but the 
sober, serious realization of every-day American reality. 
Here is enough pos. ti ve philosophy for all Frenchmen to study, 
adopt, and revere as a sacred model. Its proper adoption 
would annihilate all prophecy about French failures, and 
render it all nonsense. Let the French adopt this docu- 
ment and study the practical monotheism of Americans, 
who know no such failure. In this position is enough to 
gratify the most laudable ambition of man, as the presi- 
dency of United States confers more honor than any post 
in the world, imperial or otherwise. What, then, is not 
the value of its governmental institutions? In this govern- 
mental document is the conservation of normal principles. 
But in your pseudo theocratic despotism all is a violation 
of those very principles. How is it possible,- sir, that you 
could have ever thus misrepresented monotheist institu- 
tions ? The essential difference truly is, between the sub- 
lime and ridiculous. 

602. You speak of 'Hhe difficulty which the monotheistic 
system had to surmount in the middle ages." Worse and 
w^orse. The year 1176 gave birth to monotheist govern- 
ment, and that in the United States. But if you say that 
what you meant was Catholicism, then yon should have stuck 
to your colors of consistency. iMonotheism and polytheism 
are inconvertible, and as a positive philosophy, man, you 
should never have confounded the two at any time. iMono- 
theism does unite the mentality of intellect with all that 
is excellent in monotheist institutions, thus reversing the 
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222 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

position that yoa claim for Catholicism, whose great politi- 
cal problem was to discard the sovereignty of intellect 
claimed by the Greek philosophy, and to secure social 
ascendency. (603.) The author says, "The new power 
had been in a state of latent insurrection under the Greek, 
and also the Roman regime; and it was now necessary, 
under pain of an external and fatal conflict between the 
men of action and the men of thought, to organize some 
permanent reconciliation, which should convert this vicious 
an-agonism into a useful emulation, assigning to each great 
force a share in the political system." What a fine apolo- 
gist for Catholicism, that, having already appropriated 
God's religion by her faith, man^s vested rights of govern- 
ment, to reconcile the usurpers, must be clothed in mono- 
t heist livery, to reconcile her depravities to the progressive 
liberalist of all ages that may not be too disgusted thereat. 

What a plausible sophistry to destroy the merits of the 
only institutions worthy of monotheist mentality, J3y mixing 
them up with a meretricious obsolete faith-organization, 
obsolete before the superior intelligence of mentality. How 
lo;ig will the bound giant of the people remain in his bonds? 
Can any one but the people protect, befriend, and conserve 
the people ? 

The '^ fundamental division between the spiritual and 
temporal authority will be more and more recognized as 
the greatest advance ever made in the general theory of 
the social organism," though ''no doubt the solution was 
empirical at first," and is and will be to the last. Behold 
the birth of monotheist government, consummated as a 
birth, in America. That gives assurance to man of the 
manly dignity of the individual and social nationality. 
Mentality must take an independent and exalted review of 
the comprehension, and then must overlook and surmount 
all theological barriers as mere faiths-organization. (604.) 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 223 

'*It is incompatible with the limits of this work to give 
such ail account of the economy of the catholic system of 
the middle ages as could convey any idea of the profound 
admiration I entertained for it; but it is the positive phi- 
losophy which will first render justice to this greatest politi- 
cal achievement of human wisdom." *' We have seen that 
hitherto morals had always been subordinated to political 
considerations." 

When and where was Catholicism ever an exception ? 
What is it but a revised edition of Asiatic faith-organiza- 
tion? This is what positive philosophy must positively 
decide it. It is idle to ignore the value of conservative 
progress, that each age imparts over its predecessor, and 
the whole and mighty benefit accorded by the conservative 
raentahty of the people, the monotheist guardians of the 
vested rights from their Almighty Creator. 

It is ungrateful in any modern to refuse all that is due 
to the ancient Greek philosophers, poets, historians, or any 
others; at the same time it is pagan weakness to adopt 
aught but what mentality selects. Thus it is with all or- 
ganizations. The lines of Horace are applicable as to the 
change of the times, and of man's change in them. What 
is the object of creation? The virtuous pursuit and acqui- 
sition of knowledge is one. What was the catholic organi- 
zation — what is it? A pedantic despotism, that affects 
learning, affects all about faith, and ignores popular wisdom 
and religion. This a '^universal morality?" that was so 
flagitiously outrageous, so much a heresy on all the decen- 
cies of life and morals, that its most important correct'on 
ever taught it, in its sycophantic age, was the protestant 
revolution. 

Its spiritual authority, like the old Asiatic foggyism, 
helped to the usurpation of temporal power. Mentality 
has to make full allowance for the normal development of 



224 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

monotheist institutions, and its positive philosophy will 
realize the facts. I am willing to concede to Catholicism 
all that is its property — no more, no less. All the good 
that all institutions do is by and through organic normal 
principles, when men use them as all born do, being mono- 
theists by birth-right. But that is not the whole philo- 
sophic question. Positive philosophy is not the apologist for 
usurpation for the benefits of despotic commission or omis- 
sion. Hers is a sublimer function. Had the Asiatic 
prestige, power, been as military as the European or Con- 
stantine, it is very likely the world to-day had been Bhud- 
ist or Brahminical. But as the philosophic mind must allow 
for what belongs to race and climate, and all aids in its 
development, all this must never be lost sight of. Ade- 
quate causation is the great normal principle of philosophic 
mentality. It is the world of mind only that comprehends 
this question. 

There are many things to be taught mankind, Americans 
as all; but who are to be the professors, teachers? All 
liberalists are willing to be taught by adequate teachers ; 
but what Europeans are adequate to it? All Europe is 
but one great incarnation of politico-ecclesiastico martial 
despotism. But for European and Asiatic prestige of this 
caste, why all this jargon about religion? The corruption 
of language by that of ideas and customs for the benefit 
of conventialisms? Why this obsequious flattery by the 
people, that Catholicism is even a religion? 

What European, even Frenchman or Englishman, can 
give practicular illustration of the science of government as 
a constitutional republic? How comes it, then, that these 
very people cited have not sought the purest tuition of 
these unerring normal principles for their highest elevation? 
Why their culpable omission? The very day that man bar- 
ters his mind and mental rights of liberty credulously to 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 225 

monarch or priest for his faith, he sells himself that much. 
What difference if he got it second-handed provincially, as 
in America? 

As a monotheist, I candidly acknowledge that of the 
great reform needed in the world, that America has her 
portion, a good part of which she has already done; that is 
a redeeming quality for the present. 

How comes it that the European world does not approx- 
imate these standards of excellence? Behold in her insti- 
tutions the rich magnificence of mind, worthy of a visit by 
all the princes of mentality. The extremes of heat and 
cold bespeak the necessity for the best appreciation of a 
conservative atmosphere, and the richest munificence in the 
solid staples of enjoyment can only be accurately estimated 
over sterility and penury, for the comprehension is alone 
positive philosophy for universal vitality. 

To return: if M. Comte can count on any adherents, he 
must estimate those who vacillate between Catholicism and 
atheism. In this country imperial dictators cannot survive, 
but their emissaries and agents are circulating their faith- 
political doctrines and bibles. In America, of course, there 
is more religion than ever, and in that ratio there is decline 
of faith. But under the catholic monopoly for faith the 
organization has lost the beloved advantage of mind's worth, 
the loftiest elements of the soul. As proof, to-day where 
is the mighty potentate that once *' prescribed submission to 
established governments?" A prisoner in his own capital, 
or its fugitive, dependent on the alimony of a squinting re- 
public to assassinate a sister republic ! The despot of his 
own church by foreign bayonets! It is time that the sleep- 
ing world should speak to her petty loafers. 

The miserable policy of faith-organizations must and will 
be repealed. The sooner the world demands it the better, 
and unconditionally. Surely France, that was trained un- 



226 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

der collusion of kingly and ecclesiastical despotism of last 
century, has opened the eyes of the world. 

^'othing short of monotheist institutions, that have con- 
served the universe, could fulfil the wants of man. Man- 
kind have had the catholic of Europe, their prototype in 
Asia, to satiety and injury. It meets the great interests of 
the ''social organism," when we see why Rome, ever un- 
scrupulous, fixes an iron despotic censorship of the press, 
and interdicts books into her territory. Her hirelings, Je- 
suits, and others, are well skilled in human nature, well 
trained in trickster arts; they bear the mosaic false lights, 
and are ever unblushing in their falsehoods, thereby horri- 
bly corrupting mankind by the most transparent untruths. 
What means will they not resort to, to secure their ends? 
Can good or worthy citizens ever persist in such vulgar 
usage, that negatives correct ideas, and corrupts the world 
forever? They falsified as far as they could all the volumes 
of time. What right has this church to make the world 
suffer thus? Its apologists pretend that if it do not thus 
act, that others even worse will ! But that is untrue, for 
monotheist institutions were their antecedents. "* 

It is absolutely essential that as monotheists we must 
have correct language, or give up the whole advantage to 
usurpers, who have put their tariff on mankind indefinitely 
if submitted to. 

Catholicism is purchased too dearly, at any price of mind 
and liberty. It cannot be received as a gift, like the Gre- 
cian horse. What social diplomacy and deception does it 
impart — all conventional. 

What can the world promise itself in such a state of 
things? Popes and atheists are laughing at the credulity 
of the masses who are stupidly amazed at the liquefaction 
of blood, the winking eyes of a picture. Popes, the here- 
tics of religion, present a conventionaUsm for credulous peo- 



A MEKICA VINDICATED. 227 

pie. They decide on heresies, yet they are the greatest of 
all heretics, the infallible heretics of faith against religion. 
The czar is an imperial heretic. What have not these her- 
etics cursed on earth? The pope claims to be a religious 
ruler. Those of the mosaic type take their bibles from the 
universe bible, while the pope takes his title from God, 
who is the only religious ruler. The pope is only a faith 
ruler. What of that? Catholicism is an absurd and 
wicked idea of spoils-party, instead of the wise monotheist 
institutions of the all-wise Creator. 

Monotheist institutions are for the people, who are by 
no means amenable a moment to faith-organizations which 
they should master, as the offspring of collusive, executive 
monarchs and priests. 

The great object of the last is to defeat man in all the 
wise benefits of the Almighty. These collusive conspira- 
tors are determined by all manner of means, ignobly and 
grovelling, to ignore all the rights and triumphs of mind, 
as far as it will permit them. What avail, then, all the 
noblest efforts of mind in the world, America, Europe the 
last century even, for man's benefit, if rendered impotent 
by ignoring monotheist institutions? Sacrilegious errors 
and crimes have been committed against the people, who 
should never permit their indulgence in language, ideas, or 
actions. 

The true design of thought is for correct results, or con- 
clusion, of course comprehension, to master all opposing or 
antagonistic designs that invalidate man's best, highest in- 
terest. What, then, was and is Catholicism? The one wicked 
and foolish idea, to change the social and political relations 
of monotheist institutions by a band of traitors to mind's 
rights. 

When M. Comte gives it any virtues, he unwittingly en- 
dows it with what are inherent monotheism, that operates 



228 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

in the universe everlastingly, by virtue of God's delegation 
God delegated powers to mind under the religious guidance 
or control of the universal chart — that is, through conser- 
vative monotheist principles — reserving to himself his own 
faculty of unity. Catholicism has invaded and violated the 
delegated powers of mind, the reserved ones of Deity. 

Do the people know where they stand — what are their in- 
herent functions of mind, and of the people? Why should 
they have jewisms dictated to them by any irresponsible 
collusion, for social violation? What board of priests, kings, 
and spoilsmen in the w^orld is any other but powerless for 
good, but an evil-doer that proscribes religion for faith ? 
What is the game to be played but rule or ruin, by the 
spoils party of conventionalism? What can the people ever 
promise themselves, in exchange for any conventionalism 
whatever? They give in exchange their city, home, family, 
liberty, country, all that is dear in life, for this wooden 
horse or trinket of tory conventionalism. They surrender the 
dispensations of Providence in monotheist institutions that 
regulate the universe, for that which undermines them. God 
requires fideUty to his institutions. 

606. ''The papal hierarchy, in fact, constituted, in the mid- 
dle ages, the main bond among the various European nations, 
after the decline of the Roman sway; and in this view the 
catholic influence ought to be judged, as De Maistre truly 
remarked, not only by the ostensible good which it produ- 
ced, but yet more by the imminent evil which it silently ob- 
viated, and w^hich, on that occount, w^e can only inadequate- 
ly appreciate." But positive philosophy bids us look at 
more than the beginning of the end. The foundation that 
it laid is now laying waste Europe w^ith carnage for faith- 
protectorates. The official functionary of Deity is mentality 
of mind, that Catholicism contravenes in all ages, middle or 
modern This power is higher than infallible popes, that 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 229 

are mere ciphers, phantoms before the people. Their capi- 
tal is monotlieist institutions. 

The world never needed catholic conventionalism, but 
normal principles as their exponents. Catholicism is and 
was a pagan trifle and mischief, not only non-essential to, 
but inconsistent with the existence of the social world. It 
may be claimed that she put forth seminaries, or may have 
been the embodiment of seminaries. Then that only proves 
that she did what could have been done by the public insti- 
tutions, had due justice been done by her aggressive ambi- 
tion. She appropriated all power, of every kind, usurpable. 
Her private speculations ever embarra^ssed the liberal, man- 
ly operations of mentality. 

Great events ever characterize the magnanimous agents. 
Did Catholicism ever meet the great requisitions of the 
world? Did she ever possess the true elements of great- 
ness, to meet the mighty requisitions that test it? Where 
now is she? In the van of lumian liberty? Battling for 
the rights of mind, of the people? Or is she in company 
with foreign bayonets, dyed in the heart's blood of her own 
Roman citizens ? Is she seeking the vital liberty of man, 
the highest purposes of creation? If not, then, as a foggy, 
she should retire from the theatre and possession of mono- 
theist institution, that premise their supremacy in universal 
good, and arrest of calamities. Catholicism is antagonistic 
to the excellence of popular government, and the best rule 
of religion. The American school presents something orig- 
inal, worthy of interest for brave Europeans, who should 
study their monotheist institutions, that present the capital 
for general good, while Catholicism presents faith-organiza- 
tions of evil. The world-monarchies have claimed to be 
mistresses of the oceans, and the right to dictate maritime 
laws ; they have palmed off conventional bibles, and the 
pretence to dictate them as their faith, and worship to their 
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230 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

serfs, and as many of the world as they could stultify, and 
whose mind they could keep caged. The patriotic free 
minds of freemen have vindicated mind^s rights by the su- 
premacy of the people. They know that every man is best 
his own pope, without the pope^s humbuggery. They thus 
free themselves from the double-faced faiths that personate 
religion, and that cover the deceits of treachery of spoils- 
men over the people. They know that but for monotheist 
institutions man had been created to no jDurpose, as none 
other can save him from anarchy and despotism. 

The sympathy and elevation of nations are through nor- 
mal principles and religious comprehension. What can the 
world of mind be but a progressive transition state to men- 
tality, and therefore must ever hold itself open to convic- 
tion and liberal stateliness! 

Where are the liberal friends of constitutional liberty in 
this decisive world, universe question? Are they on the 
tory side of monarchs? are they with the blind faith of cre- 
dulity? Catholicism claims puissance to its faith; but what 
is abstract faith more than a nonentity? What, then, are 
all other kinds of faith? They are allied to facts, and are 
to be decided according to the truthful virtue thereof. 
Where, then, is Catholicism? A nonentity, compared to 
monotheism. 

The last is the pioneer and engineer of pubhc opinion on 
normal principles, that the world essentially requires. Who 
gainsays all this but Catholicism? Who but she has inter- 
dicted mind as the executive of its normal and liberal pas- 
sions? 

The people of Europe must look to a higher source than 
that continent can furnish, and avail themselves of all nor- 
mal and intellectual power now, not burn daylight and sac- 
rifice truthlight, or stultify themselves with that which 
weakens them, and strengthens tyrants and their despoilers. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 231 

Let them inquire into the state of all faith-organizations, 
Catholicism especially, that is ever tenacious of ecclesiasti- 
cal error, repulsive of ratlonaUty; it listens to no reason, 
learns no new idea of religious expansion, deaf to all mono- 
theist institutions, that are the only engineer of all conser- 
vations. Is this their ally, their sublime conservator of the 
middle ages? She, that is always antagonistic to liberty, 
and treacherous to its advocates ! Hers is the cunning of 
tact, the incarnation thereof. The human pagan mind has 
been led captive by her and her accomplices. 

The revelations of the universal chart disclose her ante- 
cedents to be nonentities and delusions, as Moses was the 
veriest impostor, like the whole type of priests. Surely no 
enlightened people will think of receiving carricatures of 
laws and religion from such opprobrious sources. 

Monotheist institutions create and lead public opinion to 
rule the tempestuous waves of anarchy, to still the terror 
of despotism, to annihilate all priests and mouarchs, all 
chief conspirators, and spoilsmen. All these are all fail- 
ures, and cannot rule free, honorable nations. Sycophants 
and flatterers may affect it, but all is undeniable. Jew^ism 
did not answer for the serfs of Moses; how, in the name of 
God, can they meet the noblest purposes of monotheist 
mentality? Hirelings lose sight of Deity in expost-fiicto 
patent intermediates, their monetheist chart, in mosaic ab- 
surdities of a by-gone age. 

M. Comte says, *' Catholicism could incorporate with 
itself, in the days of its greatest splendor, only a small por- 
tion of the civilized world; since, before it was matured, the 
Mahommedan monotheism had taken possession of a large 
portion of the white race; and some centuries afterwards, 
the Byzantine monotheism, which was almost as unlike it, 
had alienated from it forever the half of the Roman world.'^ 
This is about as definite as the statement of General 



232 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

Cass in the Senate of the United States, that the Turk 
was a better Christian than the Muscovite. To estimate 
all the preceding any other than polytheists is a solecism. 

All men are created and live monotheists, bv the author- 
ity of the Creator's chart. When they become Catholics, 
Latin, Greek, or Mahommedan, they become pagans or 
polytheists. Surely any political organization having such 
powers could flourish, and the fact of the Mahommedan 
dynasty expelling the Latin from its spiritual and temporal 
capitals, evinces the proof. 

*'The institution of confession is an all-important func- 
tion of the prerogative of education. It is at once a con- 
sequence and complement of it." The most ingenious 
espionage on free mind of all pedantic impudence and 
despotism. ^'The right of absolutism" was an infamous 
plagiary of Deity's department. 

614. ^'The amount of polytheism involved in Catholi- 
cism was as small as the needs of the theological spirit 
would admit." This winds up the author about Catholi- 
cism being monotheism. As to the author's ''There is no 
department of general morality which was not eminently 
improved by Catholicism," I say, as to its social benefits, 
it caused the bloody fanatical crusades of two hundred 
years' warfare of Europe with Asia, and turned upside down 
the morals of mankind. Itself the author of a solecism 
fighting for religion! It acquired vast possessions from 
the people, and held all with ambitious, avaricious tenac- 
ity, and would have mentally enserfed the whole of Europe 
to its monster intrigues, if it had been competent to have 
done so. 

632. **The suppression of inspiration, with all the train 
of oracles and prophecies, apparitions and miracles, testi- 
fies to the noble efforts of Catholicism to enlarge, at the 
expense of the theological spirit, -the as yet narrow field of 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 233 

human reason, as far as the philosophy of the period would 
allow.'' Where are the liqiiefactiou of blood, the winking 
picture, the miracle cure of the German princes? Where 
is the bible of mirachvs, prophecies? Is the reader blind, 
that the author shouhl say the preceding ? 

''This system was not, as I have shown, hostile to intel- 
lectual' f)rogress : on the contrary, it favored it; but it 
never incorporated that improvement with itself." Indeed! 
Catholicism never imprisoned GaHleo for three years, for 
publishing the very system of astronomy that is now the 
one of received science, and which it tried all the expedi- 
ents to prevent, as it negatived their mosaic falsehoods! 
It was all the time as now, a great immoral incubus on 
mintFs progress, freedom, and purity, a great political 
trickery, like its type of pagan theology, that sought ''ab- 
solute domination." Catholicism is a heresy to monothe- 
ism, that rests on clearly defined absolute basis. The 
infallible pope has recefitly given a dogma through his 
council of creatures, "of the immaculate conception of the 
virgin mother of God." That is a form of mpnotheism 
with a vengeance. 

One of thfe worst desecrations of language and ideas is, 
to mix up subjects that have no congenial union, as to 
ascribe to monotheism the vagaries, errors, and crimes of 
polytheism. All the faith-organizafons of the last are 
unprincipled speculation on mind's rights by unprincipled 
projectors and conspirators. The catholic system, above 
all others, as the posit ve philosophy, as it is called, atheis- 
tic or not, are to exclude monotheist institutions. The 
greatest injustice has been done the last by all the collusive 
machinations of man. 

M. Comte, by tlie touch of his positive philosophy, may 
assume to expimge all theology, as he calls it, but he is 
powerless to ignore the absolute demonstration monotheist, 
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234 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

much less can he avail by committing his understanding on 
catholic sm being a form thereof. His scriptures are mis- 
translated, for the world has to see the glory and munifi- 
cence of the monotheist age developed. 

A 1 faith-organizations are miserable substitutes of pagan 
mind for monotheist institutions, while they only serve to 
demonstrate the absolute necessity of the last to complete 
the sublime purposes of creation. All polytheism is a dic- 
tatorship wherever recognized, while monotheism is the 
only universal institution ever intended. 

The author says, p. 666, that ''the American revolution 
was as purely Protestant as the others, and ought to be 
classed with them, though its date causes it to be errone- 
ously referred to a more advanced stage of the general 
movement.^^ Is this positive philosophy, or the ecclesiasti- 
cal bantling? I should not consider M. Comte a sound 
expositor of the first, if it be. 

We see the beauty and strength of the monotheist insti- 
tutions of the author of mind, who gave not to caste the 
lil)erty of conscience, the equality, national and individual, 
social and religious independence, but to the sovereignty of 
the people. "There is nothing to be said for its success 
as a decisive social enterprise.^' The free exercise of its 
monotheist government is developing the most transcendent 
social supremacy on earth. This is the mighty soul of the 
revolutionary position — nor for church, but people — mind. 
You mistake awfully, M. Comte, in subordinating the su- 
preme to the inferior, the positive to the theological. It 
is yoar metaphysics. 

66T. '' Inevitable and indispensable as was the temporal 
dictatorship which followed upon the catholic period, it 
could not destroy the value of the principle of the separa- 
tio!i of the two powers, the theory of which is the most 
valuable legacy left us by Catholicism, and the only one on 



AMERICA VINDTCATED. 235 

which, when united with a true, pos'ti^ doctrine, the re- 
organization of society can proceed." Singular union of 
discarded theology with its tradacer, positive philosophy. 
Had positive philosophy and not M. Comte spoken, there 
had been another view presented than a carricature. ^'No 
adverse influences can, however, prevent the ultimate re- 
cognition of a principle ('the main principle of modern 
civilization^) so accordant with the condition and needs of 
modern society. It will assume its full force when the posi- 
tive philosophy opens the way to social reorganization." 
Is it ''the primitive Greek dream of that metaphysical the- 
ocracy which they called the reign of mind, this illusion of 
philosophic pride ?" The temporal dictatorship of Cathol- 
icism and positive philosophy? I will leave M. Comte to 
throw his severe reproaches on protestantism, as that and 
Catholicism are invalued in censurable positions. 

''Protestantism must be charged with having seriously 
impaired the fundamental principles of morality, both do- 
mestic and social, which Catholicism had establ.shed under 
precepts and prohibitions which will be sanctioned in their 
spirit, more and more emphatically as the positive philoso- 
phy prevails." If protestantism made Catholicism disgorge 
its ill-gotten territorial possessions, that at least exempts it 
from one charge of immorality, and is laudatory of positive 
good to the people — the despoiled. But at last there is 
one act of justice by M. Comte. "Moreover, it is evident 
that the expansion of the revolutionary doctrine would 
have been wholly repressed without the deistical movement 
which characterized the last century; for protestantism, 
after having introduced critical principles, always abandoned, 
them when they could be dispensed with, using its triumph 
to organize a retrograde system of resistance." And this, 
at least, reaches the height of the question. But again the 
author decries deism. iMonotheist institutions do not depre- 



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cate any man^s opposition. I advocate no deism that does 
not exist by their birth-right. That silences M. Comte. 

But he gives enough to render Catholicism amenable, as 
trespassing on the sacred rights of life, liberty, and prop- 
erty. He says: '' Catholicism, in its decay, not only sanc- 
tioned but instigated the extermination of whole races, and 
the institution of slavery, &c." The author alludes to the 
military dictatorship of Prance. That is the misfortune of 
Europe, to be ruled by dictatorships, governmental, eccle- 
siastical and military, that divide the spoils. What a pity 
it is that the people cannot take their model from the Uni- 
ted States. 

He says truly, no doubt, that "the whole nature of Na- 
poleon Bonaparte was incompatible with political ability; 
with any conception of social progression." "His policy 
was retrograde." "Bonaparte perverted the sentiment (of 
brotherhood) into an immorality, by offering as a reward 
for popular co-operation the oppression and pillage of Eu- 
rope." "The propagation was of oppression and pillage, 
for the sake of enthroning a foreign family." 

M. Comte now comes to w^hat he deems " the necessity 
of a spiritual reorganization, toward which all political 
tendencies converge, and which aw^aits only the philosophi- 
cal initiative that it requires." What a pity that he and 
all Europe, France especially, do not study the optimism 
in the practical benefits of American monotheist apprecia- 
tion, instead of negative speculations. This country pre- 
sents the evolution of transcendent, practical, positive phi- 
losophy, that shames mere theological metaphysics. 

Page ^65. '^I cannot but suppose my readers convinced 
hj this time that there is a growing pressure of necessity 
for a spiritual power entirely independent of the temporal." 

Is this positive philosophy that speculates on a spiritual 
power? "There is some recognition of the necessity of a 



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separate spiritual government in the influence which actu- 
ally belongs to men of letters and metaphysicians in our 
day." *'The great wars (of Europe) are no doubt over." 
Recent events prove M. Comte^s judgment fallacious. But 
what is this spiritual authority? "All spiritual authority 
must rest on free and perfect confidence and assent, such as 
are accorded to intellectual and moral superiority." But 
is it certain that no other faculties will intervene ? If it 
require a genuine principle of unity, of final philosophy, 
who can consummate its practical application but the Cre- 
ator, philosopher, the existent unity, who rules the whole 
economy? Where is this positive philosophy? Has men- 
tality yet ever reached its conservation, that it should 
take precedence ? Has M. Comte ever displayed the full 
evidence of positive certainty, that it could safely take and 
conserve the lead? Is it not yet arbitrary, when asking 
for the lead ? 

''The relative character of the philosophic spirit exhibits 
this logical coherence as always constituting the most de- 
cisive testimony to the reality of our conceptions, because 
their correspondence with our observations is thus secured, 
and we may depend upon being as near the truth as the 
corresponding state of things allows." But that will not 
do, answer for mentality, that absolutely needs the model 
of the author of truth. The very term of M. Comte^s 
philosophy, positive or relative, only expresses a desire or 
love for wisdom and truth ; hence even language defines the 
limit of man^s capacity for his mental, social department. 
It is the best plan of education to reach science. What 
more is it than the best practical state, representative of it? 
Monotheist institutions free mind from its hlnvery of faith- 
organizations. 

M. Comte says, that ''necessary as polyi:;amy was in its 
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about as correct avS that polytheism was especially benefi- 
cial to any people, where its priesthood was the de}.ository 
of all knowledge, instead of diffusing the blessings of mind 
among the people. ''The statesmen of Greece and Rome, 
superior as ihey were in accomjJishment and generality to 
any examples that modern times can show.'- All this needs 
confirmation, as far as the present government of ths Union 
excels all past ones. There is no comparison worthy of no- 
tice between the two, so far does the modern model excel 
the ancient apology in the reality of popular enjoyment, 
also by its d ffusion of light among the people by the press, 
comniprce, government, and all that adorns the monotiieist 
progressive age, that exercises the positivity and its provi- 
sion of philosophy. It is positively clear to my mind that 
all that is of positive science only substantiates monotheist 
institutions. Mind must and does work for and by means 
of the last. Diplomacy rules much of life in regard to 
fame, but facts rule out the first. If ''astronomy be the 
true study of nature,^' positive philosojihy only realizes that 
much, and can never transcend it, unless in abeyance to the 
monotheist rule. 

As the atheistical or positive philosopho-metaphysics ig- 
nores all ideas of the soul, but speculates on the origin of 
the planets of this system from the solar atmosphere, "in 
virtue of its extreme heat," how comes it that man is one 
of its phenomena, when that extreme heat must have de- 
stroyed the very germs of human life? This very fact, that 
brings man into existence, makes him subsequent to planeta- 
ry organization, and independent thereof. 

i>I. Comte must see the absolute fallacy and impotence 
of the positive pliilosophy, beyond its legitimate functions, 
of a quality of mental ty, for any other position is an as- 
sumption, that qualifies it the positive philosophy of conven- 
tionalism. The conclusion is inevitable. 



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Analysis of G. S. Faherh " The Difficulties of Infidelity ^ 
— I premise my work is for extinguishment, annihilation of 
infidelity. What is its proper signification but infidelity to 
Deity? 

The next thing is to define the word religion; the false 
ideas thereof are hard to eradicate. 

The polytheists have assumed thousands of religions, 
while atheists take hold of the polytheistical convention- 
alisms as the legitimates to combat, though the Creator 
of the universe has created only one. Man, therefore, 
should eradicate the pagan idea of faith being reli<iiun. 
All polytheists are amenable to this important objection, 
as Faber in his preface, page vii., and elsewhere. 

No man has a right to the term religion, either by his 
bible or otherwise, until he can prove by his faith to be it 
which is absurd, as God created religion, and man puts 
forth his faith. He who advocates bible, or faith incom- 
patible with God'S chart and religion, is an infidel to it and 
God. There is, therefore, no inspired or natural religion, 
as it is like its God, a unit, indivisible. 

All revealed religion is by the universal chart of God's 
ideas. Let infidelity stand forth responsible for its own 
sins of conventionalisms. 

The question for discussion is to decide whether atheists 
and polytheists are amenable to the just censure of being 
infidels to the Creator. 

Sec. 1, p. 1. It is immaterial whether the offensive or 
defensive be taken by Faber, as truth can compete with 
and vanquish all his type with complete triumph. 

P. 2. He starts on his ''strong presumption that at some 
time, and in some place, and after some manner, the Su- 
preme Being has expressly revealed himself to his creature, 
man." There is not a word of truth in his assertion, no 
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proclairaiDg it. He seems to have contracted the human 
mind to his pretended only reasons that could be brought 
to invalidate the position. Yain and ignoble idea, only 
worthy of a priest's mind accustomed to dogmas, and not 
analysis. It is idle to pursue him in their mazes. This 
whole programme is expunged at once by the position that 
such would be inconsistent with God's universal chart, that 
records and demonstrates his ideas — ^not words or thoughts 
of or to man, but the language of God by ideas. God re- 
veals only through the universe. 

Mr. Faber (p. 3) says: ''Therefore a revelation from 
Go I to man is abstractedly poss ble." This would be su- 
pererogatory, and that at once implies a contradiction, as 
God, the un.ty of causation, uses one means for multiplicity 
of purposes, not several means for only one purpose exclu- 
sively. That is priest. He would not substitute his per- 
fect day star-light for priest-darkness and inconsistency. 
What a low idea, that God, the author of subliniitv, of 
mentality, should humble it to inanity! Cl)a"n the eagle 
of genius to his sterile isles of inane thoughts! Ko, sir, it 
is inconsistency, a palpable absurdity. This is enough to 
satisfy all but fanatics. 

2d ground is idle, as the universal chart imparts adequate 
means for mind to progress to mentality, and its adequate 
purpose. The universe is the only adequate, effectual 
means. It is idle to think of substituti s. 

3d ground. There are no other evidence s established but 
the unverse, and cannot be. My preceding work has njet 
this snlvject. Then you dodge the hoiioraljle question. You 
have to prove your book of Jewism or judaized affiliation 
is more, otherwise your defeat is certain. Your position is 
begging the question. You have to demonstrate or be si- 
lent, not assume. 

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but God bad endorsed the universe, not priests, reli- 
gion, not faith, or faith-factions, principles, not conven- 
tionalism. 

On page t you say, ''our religion ;^^ say your faith only. 
On page 8 you state, ''a religion claiming.'^ What are the 
claims of faith, and what are they worth? You have en- 
tered a syllogism, and what is it worth in the mouth of a 
deist, when you have forestalled all honorable argument? 
What are all your claims worth, endorsed by all your Les- 
lies and Paleys of the universe? Are you after truth or 
sophistry, the spoils of sophistry, the damnable sin of your 
type, over the vested rights of the people who paid your 
salaries? You ask for the history of Cyrus, the credence 
of mind. What is worthy of it as history is to be admitted, 
but can you honorably ask for more? Can you rightly ask 
for credence of base substitutes of history, mere story? 
Honest people receive the genuine coin, but they do not 
offer the base counterfeit. Tliey reject all such as unwor- 
thy. But your case is not analogous. History and con- 
ventionalism differ essentially. Christianity is sectarianism 
of faith, no more, and bad enough at best. 

Skepticism is a matter of principle, when credulity in- 
volves it. Is mind a faithful, honorable representative of 
facts, religion? Let justice be done the guardian of man^s 
safety and liberty, honesty and religion. 

5th ground. The evidence of the heir-at-law is competent 
alone to solve this problem. Mentality towers over faith- 
factions and their prejudices. The author has made him- 
self a complete sophist for rickety, absolute nonsense. Let 
the word be justly used, and the whole fact can be distinctly 
seen. If all are tried on their merits, all that are faiths 
will surely be discarded. Demonstrative evidences that in- 
troduce the Creator to the universe, exclude all such as im- 
postors. What is the proper evidence? It is that which 
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demonstrates the owner of the estate, proves the heir — the 
normal heir by the normal equity of adjudication. 

6th ground. All faiths inconsistent with the chart are 
ruled out by the vested rights of the heir. Real religion 
thus triumphs over delusive faiths. As to the chart, opinion 
does not avail, as that is the universal title. 

No authority of man, as that of the deist Volney, or of 
Socrates and Plato, the polytheists, is competent. They 
are not competent witnesses, neither Yolney for pagan mind, 
nor Socrates and Plato against it. Let the chart of God 
speak as it does for itself, and drive out all the priest-specu- 
lators. Ko luminaries, as you call them, are to decide for 
us. Fulton was good authority for steam improvements to 
a great practical discovery, but Socrates would not be at 
all. What did the ancients know of true science ? Much 
less than the moderns. Socrates and Plato are known for 
metaphysics. It is not men, but a universal chart. This 
is the only code, and mentality must make the most, the 
best, the only use thereof. Then it is not opinion, but facts, 
not faith-organizations, but religion. In this all mankind 
can be unanimous. This chart is not admitted on faith or 
creduhty, but on demonstration, so priest syllogisms cannot 
restrict mentality, (ii., p. 14.) The deductions are worth- 
less. No divine revelation other than by the universal chart 
is essential; in fact it is noxious, as it originates heresy to 
religion. None has been established: all such is spurious, 
the christian as all. What nonsense, then, is it to talk of 
any but the universal revelation; that covers all the ground. 
None other can be taken fairly or truthfully. 

Sec. ii. ''The difficulties attendant upon deistical infideli- 
ty in the abstract rejection of all revelation from God." I 
reply, that normal principles are adequate for man's govern- 
ment, are only known by mentality. ''But the aid of a 
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Mr. Faber, and to sustain it lie calls for proof of only one 
God as Creator, without any of bible particular revelation. 
Of course God is monotheist God, he wishes proved. Men- 
tality can only get one adequate, universal causation of one 
causator-absolute in existence, and that is worth all else be- 
sides, that are superfluous and worthless any way intrinsic- 
ally. This advocate of polytheistic infidelity fixes it that 
one God could not be the designer, or that the single de- 
signer is unproved as yet, then. Evident design of the uni- 
verse proves mentality-faculty; universal design and execu- 
tion present demonstration of such monotheist being. There 
is only one agent, the universe, that is organized existence, 
and that is elaborated by design of an adequate causator, 
whose elements cannot be organized, but is supreme unity — 
therefore absolute existence; one supreme designer is abso- 
lutely demonstrated. All other agents that seek to tnke 
advantage of mind, have to own another universe for proof 
of their mission, or be disgraced by ignoble exclusion. Any 
especial, peculiar, or particular revelation can only be part 
of the universal, and is a plagiarist innovation thereon, en- 
titling all holders to the position analogous to agents of 
spurious currency, appropriate penalties. It is, then, abso- 
lutely certain that unity is absolute existence, as mentality 
has no other idea of a supreme causator that reflects uni- 
versal ideas through his chart, that is necessarily responsible 
to*" him the Creator. 

The chart authorizes all correct inferences about God, 
who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent through 
bis principles that represent and vindicate him. As men- 
tality-faculty, he is the central originator of all that perfect 
mentality-faculty can imply, physically and mentally, so- 
cially, morally, and religiously. God, of course, is eternal, 
an absolute existence, that is not appreciated by time, and 
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mises all originating qualities of perfection. He has crea- 
ted perfect justice, and rules the universe rightly, justly, 
perfectly, through his normal principles, that represent and 
vindicate him under all circumstances. Above all qualities, 
if any take precedence, he rules with honesty and religion. 
This admits of no cavil at all, as he has created goodness, 
not evil, that is no creation, no more than cold, which are 
negatives, the first of goodness, the second of caloric. Of 
course, as the universe is the chart, it imparts truly, as de- 
velopment of mentality progresses, all that is practicable 
to mind verified as truth. 

All that faith-organizations, codes, or bibles pretend to 
present are excerpts from this monotheist document, ex- 
tracted by pagan minds, mosaic, mormon, &c., for pagan 
imposition and idolatry, pagan purposes and spoils. The 
universe was created for the greatest good to the greatest 
number, that is all; hence all existences must enjoy its 
vital benefits as the beneficiaries. There are innumerable 
woes in the world, but mind must look up to God through 
mentality for its own improvements in its faith by facts, 
governments by amended practice, and happiness by gen- 
eral good, all through normal principles. 

As free agent, that is pre-eminently proved by variety 
of mental action and moral qualities, much depends on 
mind's own best exertions to promote general welfare, to 
counteract the evils of despots, insatiable monsters of 
avarice and ambition, above all ecclesiastical complots and 
collusions in oligarchy, state faith-factions, that seek to 
devour the world if practicable. 

One great and everlasting duty mind has to perform — 
never omit to put all on demonstration, awd take no offers, 
however tempting, on trust; consider no organization as 
pre-eminently trustworthy, but make all men and their 
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know no man, or set of men more than man, and perfectly 
responsible as a man — all books, no matter the name, 
mosaic or christian bible, am.enable' to the jnst, fair, and 
honorable criticism of mentality. ''By what process of 
reasoning is proved the attribute of perfect justice belongs 
to God?'^ This is evinced by creation of man as universe, 
a perfect man as perfect universe. This, as the preceding, 
is indisputable. This is universal proof from universal 
constitution. 

''The constitution of things," read by faith-conventional- 
isms, may prevent the construction of mentality that reads 
the universe, but the faith advocates cannot gainsay the 
monot heist facts. The whole question can only be com- 
prehended universally, and that reference universally demon- 
strates the immortality of the soul, as less than that is not 
a universal comprehension. 

The polytheist, then, that sinks universal in liis peculiar 
pretext of revelation, stultifies himself so far by its annihi- 
lation, or at least nullification. This position, then, "calls 
in a future state of retribution." But the polytheist Faber 
says this implies the unjust administration of Deity in this 
world. Not at all; it is he who unjustly criticises by par- 
tial instead of universal appreciation. The polytheist can- 
not go against the constitution of things in this world, as 
a perfect world. God is consistent in his whole absolute 
existence and its perfections — justice, as all else that vindi- 
cate his mentality-faculty. 

What avail such questions as this: "If God be good, 
why are populous cities with all their inhabitants swallowed 
up by earthquakes ; why are the tremendous devastations 
of volcanoes permitted ; why does the tempestuous ocean 
yearly engulf thousands; in one word, why is death, with all 
its horrors, permitted, &c. ?" As well ask, why has God 
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created? Creation universal only comprehends the answer 
and gives the satisfactory revelation. 

If earthquakes, volcanoes, tempests of the ocean did not 
exist, could conservative principles, that demonstrate the 
perfect goodness of God in universal conservation, itself 
consummation of Deity^s universal perfect goodness ? All 
monotheist institutions, then, the premises of sublimest 
entity, irradiating perfection, premise to mentality that it 
owes Deity sublimest adoration, and the noblest action to 
itself and fellow-beings, that its institutions are to be of 
the progressive conservative school. 

Normal principles, the consummation of which is religion, 
define man\s conduct to God and man, to the world and 
himself. The author has extinguished his case especially, 
if he had not done so variously before, by this position. 
*'He can have no certainty that the very actions which 
gratify one God, may not offend another," alluding to him 
who accepts the universal chart for his revelation. There 
is no 'other chart, and this, when rightly adapted, proves 
the only correct appreciation of its God. But not so with 
pagan-bible apologists, as Faber, w^hose position is a mosaic 
adoption of this same chart, and worse, by all the special 
pleadings of a particular revelation. It is no more, posi- 
tively, than an abstract of universal revelation, that much 
worse by its particular revelations. 

Causation premises that there is but one God, as mind 
can only have but that idea therefrom. That absolute ex- 
istence is demonstrated absolutely perfect, as the Creator 
of the perfect universe. The idea of perfection cons'stently 
excludes all ideas of vice or evil from its identity. The 
idea of unity would be inconsistent, if God were not the 
perfect author of virtue. 

Deity, then, presents the idea of paternity to the uni- 
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owes God positive, certain, religious relations. All this 
excludes the idea of ''two independent principles,^' as in- 
compatible W'ith causation that is represented by creative 
unity. There can be no mistake by mentality, the only 
qualified faculty to decide rightly. God has given man all 
fixed data, universal data, that his reasoning faculty might 
reach to capacity to decide rightly about moral differences 
in reference to the model of Deity. 

God has thus given mind a universal means of distinguish- 
ing itself. The chart carries instruction, as revelation, with 
it — a universal lesson for universal and immortal purposes — 
a munificent gift to a magnificent object. The progressive 
developments of science prove its utility. 

Sec. iii. ''The difficulties attendant upon deistical infi- 
delity in regar 1 to historical matter of fact.'' Faber affirms 
that facts have to be denied, or God's revelation to man 
must have taken place. I reply that no facts can be in- 
validated by argument, whilst no pretexts for facts can be 
established by sophistry or otherwise. Such is his "gen- 
eral deluge." No deluge could have been general, as the 
means, the water, is not adequate to cover the whole sur- 
face of the earth as developed at any one time. None but 
pagan mind could conceive, and pagan copyists endorse, the 
geological, physiological, or geographical solecism. Par- 
tial, not general deluges have occurred. 

The statement that mankind gives universal attesta- 
tion about a general deluge, is absolutely invalidated by 
their pagan condition at the time specified. America, one 
large part of it was only discovered by Columbus in 1492, 
thousands of years after the pretence. The balance was 
never known generally by any distinct family of mankind. 
Hence this is not a iact or proof of fact, but a pretext, a 
pretence. Moses, the pagan author of Jewism, is no 
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its first leaf to us, convicts him of utter pagan ignorauce of 
universal principles of truth. 

By Faber's own authority of Hebrew and Samaritan 
Pentateuchs, there is a difference or discrepancy of chronol- 
ogy between them of 590 years — a very extraordinary error 
for a claim of divine accuracy. This is one indubitable 
proof of faihire of theh^ purity. All three editions bear 
this unmistakeable evidence of having falsifications of 
chronology. It is absolutely certain that those books are 
falsified. This is enough to silence a modest mind, unless 
of pagan taint and mercenary impulses, that look more at 
the retention of life salaries than the great interest of uni- 
versal facts or the right benefits of the people, his master. 
He nurtured the pet of their royal servants. 

The only record about a general deluge worthy of mind 
is the earth ; but all that is presented is obviously geologi- 
cal physiology, igneous as well as aqueous. The question 
is not one of ethics at all, much less for the solution of a 
pagan multitude, incomp^^tent by the very nature of their 
mind from recognizing such general fact. Th's very idea, 
then, is fatal to itself by its own elements of refutation. 

Pagan mind conceded to despotic force of oligarchical 
collusion of kings, priests, and partisans, the rale of govern- 
ment and all science. It was imposed upon always by 
those destitute of iiitei^rity or knowledge. If the ignorant 
ancients were dupes of ignorant, but cunning factions, of 
what moral force and trath are those very means of deceit 
to more enlightened moderns? Their errors had their day, 
and let their vices be buried with them. Why exhume ex- 
ploded nonsense? W ly keep it alive but for mercenary, 
ignoble purposes? The wisdom of God's u;iiversal chart 
will save m'nd from the treachery and folly of the spoils- 
man. Biware of his tolls, no matter in what name. 
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the story about a general deluge is a palpable fabrication. 
Pagan mind has mistaken geological formations, and de- 
signing priests have appropriated the abstracted capital. 
Their stock inclosed in their mosaic garden Noah's ark: 
Jewism belongs to them exclusively. Mind can neither 
make sense nor honesty of it, and must leave it as their 
bantling. Only to think of it, that one garden was to suf- 
fice the monotheist human family, that was created to make 
a garden of all the world. That a priest's ship was to pre- 
serve a "sufficient number of birds, and beasts, and reptiles," 
''while everything else perished beneathed the waters of a 
universal inundation." Not by any means universal, even 
had it been general. 

Pagan tradition is not credible, if God's chart says 
otherwise against its mythology. What makes the last 
true, whether from Hindostan or Palestine, all Asia? 
Was the faith-organization and codes of the last less false 
than those of the first ? Are Jews infallible men ? 

What are speculative opinions of Cuvier, Le Due, Dolo- 
mien worth, when science developes basis for Agassiz, and 
a host of geologists that look at facts, not pagan theories 
of priest legends, of analogous type in every nation ? Who 
can define the characteristic age of geological actions, 
whether of 6,000 or 100,000 years anterior? None — no 
mortal. If "a single pious family" had been saved, as pre- 
tended, then its posterity should have been Jews, and re- 
ferred to Jew Adam. All this is destroyed by irresistible 
facts of man's present position. 

Man commenced with progressive developments of mind 
to mentality from the very nature of his existence, and his 
monotheist civilization is his triumph won All Asiatic 
condition has been a faith-organization with government, 
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has been a foggy fixture for monotheist civilization to re- 
cover from. 

In consummation of all said by Faber about the deluge, 
be yields the triumph to the monotheist, when he admits 
that it was not so general at last, but that some of the 
land inhabitants were left. He claims that Jewism fur- 
nishes the facts of their safety; and as the chart of the uni- 
verse proclaims such only priest pretexts, the candid, judi- 
cious mind of man will see the true state of the case, the 
only one that faithful truth can give. There are insur- 
mountable difficulties to any particular mechanical means 
for the earth^s functions, when they are really executed by 
perquisite energy. If it had been dependent on man-priest 
or other, the whole would have gone by the board. 

It is impossible that God should have committed the 
agency out of the faculty of nature to man, irresponsible 
by the nature of his functions, who became corrupt after- 
wards, got drunk, and cursed an innocent unborn for the 
ridicule of its father thrown on the drunken priest! Is it 
reasonable that God should take from his own immutable 
agent for an impracticable priest ? Or what is really the 
case, is it right and just that the mighty interest of the 
people should be victimized to continue the spoils of priests 
for all time to come, their minds kept pagan to ridiculous 
credulity, when monotheist institutions fulfill all indications 
and forbid all faith idolatry; whilst they elevate mind for- 
ever to the happiest efforts of mentality, the noblest eleva- 
tion of humanity, and are the only subUme records of per- 
fect Deity? 

Sec. iv. *'The difficulties attendant upon deistical infidel- 
ity in regard to actually accomplished prophecy.'^ Actu- 
ally accomplished prophecy! Demonstrate the first one. 
Is one man more a prophet than another man ? Certainly 
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" the whole volume of prophecy?" The first particular has 
not yet been demonstrated. The author adduces Deut. 
xxviii., 29, for Levitical dispensation. The very first line 
premises an if, and that destroys the position claimed. 
Had it been absolute and absolutely proved, then it would 
have been a fair proposition. Had Moses foretold that the 
Jews would not do his injunction, then we might have had 
a better pretext. The second and third lines contain v/hat 
is fatal to absolute truth, about God's commandments and 
statutes. They were those of Moses, mosaic; not mono- 
theist, absolutely not, on the supreme authority of the chart. 
The seventh line, ''upon thy seed forever," cannot be veri- 
fied — never can be by man. How futile the nonsense, then, 
about prophecy! The ninth line is inconsistent with geo- 
graphical truth, ''from the end of the earth," as there is 
no end, and this proves that Moses knew not the true form 
of the earth; that God the creator would have designated 
aright to this pitiful malefactor, as to the description of 
the nation, there is nothing in that which is even extraor- 
dinary. All nations of that period were more or less bar- 
barous, and heathen to all others, and treated their enemies 
with barbarous vindictiveness. It was not reasonable to 
suppose that less than famine and pestilence should attend 
on their wars; analysis of the times proves all that. 

A nation that violated the principles of international law 
as the Jews did, under the guidance of this hoary sinner, 
would suffer in turn from the piratical oppressors of those 
ages. The violation of international laws and principles, 
perpetrated so abundantly by Moses, had a vindication in 
the normal principles of the God of the universe, whom 
this trickster pretended to obey. Had that been his pre- 
mises, good faith would have conceded it. '^And the Lord 
shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the 
earth even to the other." 



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These barbarians drew the sword over the rightful own- 
ers of the soil, and despoiled them as the weaker. In turn, 
these pirates have had to pay the reckoning. They have 
scattered themselves among the nations of the earth, like 
the gipsies in several nations, like many of the conquered 
in their time. Why have they not found rest? Because 
they have had to pay bitterly for their fanaticism that 
ravaged the oppressed people, driven off their possessions, 
or destroyed by all their barbarous tortures of the day. 

Their fanatical code even has been used against them by 
its own affiliations. Christian, Mahommedan, &c. If there 
be any prophecy here, then is it from principles. "Because 
they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God,'^ who 
gave them His chart; but, like peons, they w^ere abject fol- 
lowers of Moses and the priests, and now they have left no 
help for themselves by the only means that alone can truly 
help — monotheist institutions. That this thing was other- 
wise, the proof beyond suspicion has to be given, that no 
collusion has been practiced at all. But that is impossible, 
in face of universal facts. Only hear this fanatic: ''Their 
troubles are considered as something out of the common 
course of nature.'^ What nonsense! The Jews are no 
more, no less than degraded fanatics, conquered by the pi- 
rates of the world, the Komans; that is, the Jew pirates 
were conquered by the Roman pirates. Xow why not tell 
it that the conquerors were Romans, and absolutely without 
an if: that tells the whole. If Moses had been half a 
prophet, he should have told that the Roman pirates would 
in turn be conquered by another set of ancient pirates. 
Why not give the chapter of prophecy, that could challenge 
and defy contradiction, as it should, had God of the uni- 
verse taken away its functions for any hierarchy, so called? 
Furthermore, he ought to have restored by revelation 
enough of science to have made the Jews the people of the 



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world, the model for government and religion, not the fugi- 
tives for priestly regime and faith. 

This, then, is essential to honorable proof for mentality. 
Then we say, we observe the very deficiency of proof. Their 
very fanaticism was the cause for expulsion, and all the ill 
treatment in their adopted countries, fanatical too. Poor 
preacher! Are you so sold to sophistry, that you could 
not see that priests have been and will be priests always, 
and make prophecies ? Or, are you so corrupt as to sell 
our souls of thinking mind to the credulity that this is true ? 
The Jews have been most inveterate fanatics, and have been 
detested by nations that were fanatics in their faith. All 
this is easily explained. 

Pagan fanatics have warred on pagan fanatics the world 
over. Had the Jews been the exception, it had been ex- 
traordinary indeed. But the Jews did not submit to con- 
queror's fanaticism, and hence the persecution, bloody, des- 
perate, ferocious, doing God service. 

Shame to such stuff ! Who were the crusaders ? The 
bloody pirates, with cross and crescent banners. In these 
wars, where religion was warred upon, and fanatical faith 
the leader, what was not the sacrifice ? "Millions of Jews!" 
Gracious God! Dark ages, indeed! Oh! the bloodiest of 
all on the pages of history are those of hierarchies. Who 
wishes ever to see this foulest of iniquities possessed of one 
moment's vitality? 

Had this national malefactor been a statesman, he 
would then have said, If you persist a moment longer in 
this cursed fanaticism, you and your posterity are cursed 
indeed. I affirm to you Jews, as Jews, your damnation is 
henceforth fixed as a detested set of fanatics. Nations 
hate and despise you. The Romans, ay, I know them, 
for I am a statesman, will certainly take you Jews away, 
because you are desperate fanatics. As monotheists, all 
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honorable people will revere and respect you. I charge 
you, therefore, become monotheists, and reject all your 
priests that make you polytheists. 

Do you wish proof that nations can be rightly guided ? 
Behold the United States, that have separated state from 
priests, church, and pretended prophets, and are wisely 
ruled by statesmen — yes, statesmen. But behold a portion 
in its western wilds, near the Indians, is retrograding; it 
has got to the patriarchal adultery of the Mosaic bible. 
So much for faith-factions, prophets, and pretexts, who seek 
the most revolting obscene life, under the felonious guise 
of ecclesiastical law. The Jews are about like the gipsies, 
who are supposed to have come from Egypt, which country, 
as all ancient ones, was ravaged by barbarian pirates. 

Fanaticism alone has made something in trade out of 
the first. Had any prophecy been a truth, it had been 
attested by indisputable facts without all the priest ma- 
chinery. It should have been subscribed to, or signed and 
sealed by the author, and preserved not in the archives of 
priests, who manufacture all these things to order, but in 
that sacred depository that should have been entirely free 
from their designs. 

The author of the only chart has deposited it in the 
sacred trust of his only archives, the universe. So cease, 
Mr. Preacher, as all your claims carry on their face infalli- 
ble evidence of their own contradiction. Moses never de- 
livered a code of religion, as it was the faith of Jewism 
that he imposed on Jewish serfs, that he butchered up 
by thousands for daring to think for themselves in recusa- 
tion. He makes a comparison of Moses and Seneca, who 
affirmed to the discovery of ''a mighty land,'' that oi 
America as it turned out. Now of what benefit was the 
pretended prophecy of Moses, who premises what is merely 
a proviso to the Jew's innovation of his priest injunctions ? 



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If these had all the prestige of sacred obligations from the 
God of the universe, where is the evidence? 

All that we have of Moses is his inert folly recorded ia 
a book, its own epitaph of folly and faith-faction. He, as 
all priests, have exhibited the strongest evidence of pagan 
nonsense, in ignoring the monotheist institutions of their 
Creator, and compromising the stultification of their minds 
by all the mercenary corruption of bribery, for still-born, 
effete, innate ideas. The preacher uses words about the 
essential difference of the prophecies, as he calls them, of 
Seneca and Moses. Now the simplicity of Seneca is equal, 
if not superior, to the complicity of Moses ; I say, distinctly, 
complicity. Which has been attended with most valuable 
results? The discovery of America by Columbus is the 
great exhibition of modern genius endorsed by science, 
attended with benefits beyond all Jewism and its appur- 
tenances. Had Moses been the author, the sycophant of 
Jew affiliation would have made priest capital out of it. 
This brings us distinctly to the asservation, that all the 
pretences of spiritual manifestations are that much less the 
brilliant operations of mind. If Moses had the endorse- 
ment of the God of the universe for his institutions, they 
had flourished as the universe, both on conservative prin- 
ciples; but this ignoble fall, Mr. Preacher, teaches mankind 
that you and yours are aiding and abetting what proper 
intelligence knows is contrary to religion. 

Wherefore, then, advocate such ? For sordid self-inter- 
est, for kingly prestige you do it. With the blessing of 
God^s munificent endowments, the Jews should and w^ould 
have been the model to all people; but as it is, from the 
baseness of their pretences, they have been the lowest of 
all. Then, sir, what do you propose to give Americans 
for their monotheist treasures ? The beggarly elements of 
mosaic criminal codes, that have taken away the nationality 
and vitality of that fanatical people ? 



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What a pitiful spectacle to the world, that a still-born 
priest-type to be preaching to the world their own deca- 
dence and epitaphs. From ancient to modern mythology, 
they are always priest, and of stubborn pagan mind. They 
pretend to be progressives, yet uphold not only pagan im- 
position, but become participants in the fraud. Seneca tells 
what science reveals, and his record lives as a principle or 
element of science. Moses premises, if it mean anything, 
the decay of his own nation, by reason of their fanatical 
weakness. The first lives by science, the last sinks into 
the vortex of ecclesiastical insignificance before the people 
having their rights. How superior is the philosopher 
Roman to the Jew priest. But the romance is all lost, as 
the Koman knew, or ought to have known, of the common 
belief that this mio-htv land had been discovered. Be that 
as it may, the romance attaches to the Jewish tradition, 
and no modern special pleading can detach it. Let man- 
kind take the whole for what it is intrinsically worth, they 
will readily learn that this Jewism is no earthly utility to 
them, as proved useless to the Jews. 

It is certain that Seneca, whether prophet or poet, had 
a better knowledge of the earth than Moses, who com- 
promised his inspiration by making the globe or spheroid 
have ends — a perfect absurdity exposed by science. But 
then Mr. Preacher will specially plead that the difference 
of time gave the subsequent advantage to the Roman 
Certainly, and that necessarily absolute admission is fatal 
to your assumption of Jewish or Mosaic claim to prophecy 
that is independent of time and its discoveries. 

And this really reduces the whole exposure to the utili- 
tarian facts of monotheist institutions, that supersede all 
necessity for prophecy, and utterly preclude such; conse* 
quently all claims thereto are nugatory and invalid. 

See. V. ''The difficulties attendant upon deistical infidel- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 257 

itj in regard to the facts, and circumstances, and char- 
acter of the Christian dispensation.'^ The difficulties are 
proposed to be proved by "the facts, and circumstances, 
and character of the Christian dispensation,'^ and all others 
may be thrown in to make some weight. The proof of any 
divine revelation is to come. As to any history, whatever 
is history is admissible — any other is inadmissible if un- 
proved. 

It is authentic history that all ancient nations, as the 
Jew\s, had their national, court, or state faiths, and that they 
often had revolutions that affected Church and State. As 
to Christianity, that is all that is of it, an innovation or 
affiliation on Jewism. All that is of it is a faith-organi- 
zation. As to all the histories of the times, so far as 
authentic, they prove a fanatic revolution grew up in Pales- 
tine, as at various times elsewhere, but only ecclesiastical 
and pagan. As to ''the history of the Church becomes a 
portion of the history of Rome,'' it only proves that par- 
ticular union of Church and State, and it is certain that 
this faith-faction has been expelled from its earliest theatre 
by the Mahommedan faith, neither being religion, as they 
made a bear garden of religious existence. 

The whole history of the w^orld has been the displace- 
ment of one faith, political and martial faction acting in 
collusion, by another, very often worse, as it concentrated 
more power and more law intrigues to aid and abet its 
success. But the existence of Christ upon earth is claimed. 
It is admitted historically, but ''the proper existence" is to 
be affirmed. Whether a monomaniac enthusiast fanatic, or 
impostor, or whatever is proved, and no honest man can 
ask for more, cannot deny less. Let the premises be can- 
vassed. 

As to Christ's claims, they are no more than those of 
any man. — John vii. 28, 29. Let him not assert, but 
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258 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

prove them. Who was to be the great redeemer expected 
by the Jews? A military chieftain. How was this ex- 
citement got up but by the false pretexts of prophecy? 
That was fatal to the deluded Jews, who revolted from the 
Romans who sacked Jerusalem and carried off the remnant 
captives. So that Jews were cursed by pretences of proph- 
ecies to national loss of themselves by expatriation. 

Yet what do the claims of this man Christ avail ? They 
looked for a Redeemer and refused him. Why ? If the 
true one, they were anxious to receive him; therefore they 
rejected him as an impostor. This is the plain honest sense 
of the whole, and none but a fanatic can decide otherwise. 
What did their '^ ancient prophecy of the seers of their na- 
tion repeatedly announce?'^ "A mighty deliverer and a 
powerful sovereign !^' And not having the true Christ, 
they were ruined by destruction of city, national existence. . 
Surely this severe, awful test of Jewish sincerity is ade- 
quate to convince all but infuriated fanatics that they, the 
only persons having the right of construction, could decide 
about the applicant, claimant. 

*'In truth, the belief in question was one main cause of 
the obstinacy with which the Jews held out against the 
armies of Titus, for, as we learn fiom Josephus, many im- 
postors confidently taught the people that they might ex- 
pect assistance from heaven." Full proof that the Jews 
were a set of pagan, fanatics, and had been ruined by their 
impostor clique of priests. These poor peons of priestdom 
would have worshipped any claimant that was as repre- 
sented. 

It is idle, stupid to claim the books of Jewism for affilia- 
tions. The Mormons to-day have, then, the right to ex- 
clude the Christians. This thing of faith-organization is a 
two-edged sword, that cuts both ways. This thing of faith- 
organization is a polit'co- theological imposition, from begin- 



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ning to all of their existence. Who was to decide this 
question about Christ ? the Jews, the beneficiaries, or the 
claimant? Of course, the people, who rejected him as an 
impostor. That is their history, and the most worthy of 
credence, as they could not have rejected, as God^s people, 
God^s annointed, the Christ. The world of mind has to 
look at both sides, and the Jews have, as endorsed by God's 
chart, the truth of it. 

v., p. 3. The Jews are vindicated triumphantly on their 
basis of Jewism about Christ. The Jews, impelled by fa- 
natical priests and their own infatuated faith in such, re- 
volted from the Roman yoke. They fell, nationally, by the 
fatal pretext of prophecy, and are a standing monument to 
all nations among whom they sojourn, to beware of fanati- 
cal folly and pagan infatuation. If ever God manifests di- 
vine particular providence, this is one of his munificent 
cause and effect revelations. Their history is the history of 
the type of fanaticisms; their Moses is the type of Ma- 
homets. Mormon Smiths, and all such ignoble pirates on 
man's credulity. They always find their endorsers among 
those of analogous muscle. 

The preachers will endorse mosaic affiliations. They will 
affect all to be truth, of faith, concentialisra, that compro- 
mises the faith of the sold. When a huckster offers his 
wares to the public, all intellects will consider that a busi- 
ness transaction. Now, when ecclesiastical hucksters offer 
theirs, why is not this a business transaction? Because 
kings defend and endorse the faith ? They are co-spoilsmen, 
as they hold, by their code or bible authority, divine right. 
But some of the people endorse it. What then? Are the 
participants in the spoils less guilty, because of the people? 
Are fanatics less foolish, because kings, priests, spoilsmen, 
or the people? But the Jews are a reproach to all people, 
for resistance to Christ. Certainly not. You who contend 



260 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

for any prophecy, whether for Christ or Jew obligation, 
hold a two-edged sword that rips your own bowels first. 
If prophecy were valid for the Jews, whose interpreters 
were their priests, they could not disobey their priests in 
its interpretation. They only present one reproach before 
God and his monotheist people, that of having violated and 
continuing to violate the sacred monotheist principles. 

Before God to-day that is their only reproach. Besides, 
of what force is the argument about resistance to Christ, 
whether true or false? Resistance only presented the 
proper elements before the world. Only the true one could 
be effectual, and remove that resistance which only pre- 
sented one virtue, that of calling the notice of the people 
to their interest and duty. But if truth had been violated, 
the impostor was repelled as he was, so far as the Jews 
could do their duty. If the Romans were more corrupt, 
they took a deadly poison into their vitals. Then, Chris- 
tians, your record is the worst of all on the subject. Why 
was Christ not successful? He met with so many enemies. 
No! he met with supporters of the very thing he should 
have taught, until he had proved their errors to the satis- 
factory conviction of Jew minds, consistency of conduct. 
The Jews had been worse traitors than Judas Iscariot, had 
they forsaken their confidence of duty. How could they ? 
The absurdity proves the corrupt pagan mind in the crimi- 
nal charge. 

But the scriptures had to be fulfilled! Then the priest- 
paper scriptures were to sacrifice the universe. This proves 
them despotic, fatal to all — themselves! They have sacri- 
ficed Christ to little purpose — Jews, God, human nature, 
mankind, to their deadly poison. The highest compliment 
that can be paid the Jews' mentality, that though deceived 
by auguries, sooihsayings, or prophecy pretext, yet they 
did not take all baits, were not taken in, though down- 



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troden by priests, their souls crushed out by them; yet this 
proved deception. And to-day this is full proof in this age 
and country of all prophecy being a falsehood, a point- 
blank proof of its untruth. As wise a people as those of 
the United States have but little more to do, to endorse it 
as flagitious. The Jews are doing well in this country that 
is tolerant, and they participate as part of the nation. 
Where they do not enjoy the life of liberty, they are ex- 
cluded by intolerance of fanaticism. 

What more could be expected of the fanatical Jews, who 
were infatuated to monomania, (that is the word, ) by various 
impostors as Christ, thereby proving their too great prompt- 
ness to follow any and every one that seemed probable. 
They were almost used up by Christ impostors. But the 
bible Christ was not an impostor, because he did not affect 
military ambition. Indeed! He is claimed to have been 
born when the Koman empire was at peace, the most pow- 
erful of all. What were the Jews to promise themselves ? 
Anything from war with their masters? Christ would 
have been like Alexander of Pontus, precluded from suc- 
cess by the mighty power of the Romans. He was pre- 
cluded and subjected to an ignominious end. Besides, his 
talents did not run that way; he was not a fighting man, 
as his history discloses, but a sophist fanatic, a pagan re- 
former, or revolutionist of the prevailing dogmas. These 
are two great commanding, leading circumstances. He 
was a prophet, was he ? To Peter, to whom he had '' given 
the keys of the kingdom of heaven, he said, '^Get thee be- 
hind me, satan; thou art an offence unto me: for thou sa- 
vorest not the things that be "of God, but tliose that be of 
man.'^ A worthy key-holder was Peter: satan of such a 
prophet. What are the people profited to gain the world 
of faith, and lose monotheist institutions? 

What sophistry! The Jews would have believed him the 



262 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

Messiah, had he been a mighty temporal prince; that is, had 
he been the Messiah, the Jews, God's chosen people, would 
have ardently adopted him. What incongruities, to assume 
that he worked miracles enough to have token the universe 
by storm at once, and yet the people persecuted him, the 
prince of peace! It takes a fanatic to believe it, and a 
pagan fanatic to realize the pagan story. Look at their 
programme. Prophecy is their great bulwark, by which 
the Jews acted expressly for their Messiah, and yet fanatic 
affiliations condemn them, because they did not travel out 
of their record! Consistency, that is a religious virtue, if 
in religion, premises that these Jews are right in their faith- 
decision, though misled from religious monotheist institu- 
tions. But w^hat was the object of Christ? That is a 
question for the clergy, who enjoy all their professional and 
social emoluments therefrom. Christ is only part of the 
faith-organization adopted by the hierarchy and its heads, 
leading intriguers. 

What is the object of the thousands of spiritualists, and 
the thousand types of folly and crime, that the world has 
to sustain? What is the object of the thousand Mormons, 
who have retrograded to their adulterous polygamy? What 
actuated their heads and serfs? Spoils and fanaticism. 
Wliat actuated Nicholas for the protectorate of the Chris- 
tian sectarians of Turkey? What prompted the allies to a 
joint protectorate thereof? Has notoriety nothing to do 
with this, to say the least? What would he not have done, 
had he been successful ? That is the normal question. But 
he might have succeeded. Indeed, that has to be proved 
by his actual success. As neither he nor his followers have 
succeeded, the proof is against the vrhole of them, and 
leaves him the proved impostor — as incarnation or man. If 
incarnation, his mission had been successful; as man and 
unsuccessful, he stands convicted of imposition for more. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 263 

He is convicted forever as a malefactor — impostor. As to 
his sermon on the mount, it was characteristic of his pagan 
mind, and is very contradictory. It is much of it antago- 
nistic to God's monotheist institutions, and is fatal to his 
identity with God, whose unity forbids trinity as a pagan- 
priest fabrication. As a pagan fanatic he was victimized, 
and laid a foundation for the slaughter of millions by his 
faith-organization. Analyze the facts of the crusades 
between the affiliations of Jewism, committing parricide 
on their corrupt mother; all leaving the bloody marks of 
the beast, and gloating their existence in blood and carnage 
of fanatic-faith wolves. 

Then here is positive proof that he was so imbecile in 
mind as to violate, by his legacies, all the noblest principles 
of humanity, for his head priests to-day are sacrificing their 
100,000 yearly on their politico-theological altars. These 
facts outweigh his sermons. What are his sermons worth, 
when his faith murders nations of different faiths, and del- 
uges the world by its gory guilt — when it organizes chief 
priests, murderers of mankind? Where, O people, is thy 
safety, your salvation? In this murderous faith? This is 
the height of human folly and infatuation. If Christ was 
the priest man of straw, do not make its hypocrites the 
men of iron. The sermon on the mount is a cobweb with 
a deadly, fatal, monster spider, to entangle and devour the 
stupid, gullible, credulous mass. Its fair words may catch 
the maiden fancy of penitents, but it has no impediment to 
the monster-head priests of the world. 

Where, O credulous man, is your insurance, for adoption 
of this specious but fatal faith-organization? You have 
no claim on God, after surrender of your monotheist birth- 
right. Then hold to its whole benefits. What there is 
good and true of the sermon is purely monotheist, God's 



264 AMEEICA VINDICATED. 

institutions for mankind universally. But he has made it 
a polytheist sermon and spoilt it, as all other things. 

''He claimed to be the Saviour of mankind. ^^ There is 
but one Saviour, and he is altogether God and Saviour — 
the creator and absolutelv the conservator of the universe. 
Now, a world full of centurions, officers, and companions 
could not reverse this antecedent authority. His was a 
pagan, polytheistic morality; the greatest reformer of Jew- 
ism, but insane, senseless as to monotheist institutions, and 
therefore not of God. But all these dogmas of Christ 
please the priests; that is their business — profit, profession. 
What is that to the people, w^hose inheritance is monothe- 
ist? Will they exchange their universal bullion for paper 
counterfeits ? Render unto Christ, the pagan, the things 
that are his — even this, "But how, then, shall the scriptures 
be fulfilled, that thus it must be V^ — and unto God all that 
is his. His birth proves him a false claimant completely. 
''The prophecies teach that he should be a descendant of 
the tribe of Judah and the house of Daniel." This false 
pedigree is forever fatal to him as Christ, as he was of the 
tribe of Levi, not of Judah, and certainly not of Daniel. 
All honorable men would be estopped but priests, preach- 
ers, and hierarcbists, who violate all truth, honor, and reli- 
gion—God — the vested rights of the people. What an 
infamous set of fanatical impostors! 

The falsity of all else as prophecy respecting him is 
proved, demonstrated beyond a doubt by the Jew nation, 
who had the only authority of Jewism to decide this whole 
question absolutely, and that they have v/ith absolute 
fidelity to Jew faith, all that their bible ever required of 
them at the right time. That their so-called prophecies 
are absolutely worthless, as all others in the woild, is abso- 
lutely and conclusively demonstrated by the extinction of 
their nationality, that was losl by the Jews being deceived 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 265 

absolutely in all that would have saved them from destruc- 
tion. And this is the proof of contnidietion as cited in the 
last pari of an effort for prophecy in his favor: *'But that 
in him all the nations of the earth should be biessed." 
What nation is there on earth that has not been cursed by 
this very faith emanating from him ? 

At this very time is Europe made a bear garden of, and 
that for centuries, by beUigerent monarchs, who are of the 
union of their government with church. This would take 
a distinct history of national wrongs and abuses. A Ma- 
homet overran, by his affiliation, much of the world, and 
the Christians have done their part on all parts of the 
globe practicable. They have despoiled the invaded of ter- 
ritory to a vast extent, and sought to repay them in the 
false doctrines of this false and to them perfidious faith. 
It has at all times been the most dangerous, because most 
perfidious part of the engine of autocratical government, 
ever reproachful to the people, despoiling them of liberty, 
property, independence, and intellectuality of mind, and 
consigning the great family of man to the most barbarous 
antagonism, the worst dependence on brutal conspirators. 

What an extraordinary combination of proofs against 
Jewism and its afliliations. Jewism has been fatal to the 
national vitality of the Jews, and the one-man affiliations 
were fatal to their heads, as if Deity's principles denounced 
such impious imposition and counterfiirs. Look at their 
bloody death struggles, and still the- bear garden is in full 
beastliness in Europe and elsewhero. 

But ** wise men came out of the East to inquire after h!m, 
as soon as he was born." A star led them! If the clergy 
can avail themselves of this pagan falsity, they are weKonie. 
But this buries all pagan fools with their Christ's. It does 
not leave a piece of thciii. But this prince of prophets 
himself, that was fooled by the bari'cn (ig tree, and cursed 
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it, God's creation, for his being caught in his self-convicted 
imposition, raises a pile of dust on the aforesaid, even to 
point to incarnation's burial. 

Prophecy is a wish father to the thought, corrupt and 
criminal. Turkey was prophecied aw^ay by Christians, who 
were to conquer it last year. The Emperor started on that 
faith-political mission of a faith protectorate. It has been 
decided by one of the monarchical points to have the pro- 
tectorate of five powers, rather than of an imperial priest. 
The war has been a bear fight, and unless the people tri- 
umph, the evil is awful. Such is and has been the case for 
faith wars. 

Why do not the people see to it always, and separate 
themselves from the church? Why do the people of Eu- 
rope adhere to such a despotic toil for enclosing the peo- 
ple ? They make themselves particeps criminis in this un- 
godly warfare on their own rights. Too many of them are 
part of the spoils party. Man, that gives his mind as he 
ought always to do, must perceive that monotheist institu- 
tions are complete and adequate administrative means to 
do all that the universe requires, and that all faith-organi- 
zations are defective administrations. 

Faber speaks of a ** spiritual empire," a nonentity of in- 
nate idea absurdity. All this is an imposition, as man is 
the only spirit, and has all claims thereto. Any other is a 
fallacy, and its pretext a felony. All the attempts of 
Christ have ever been abortive, and that proves him only 
an impostor. If his mission was that of saviour, and it 
has failed for more than eighteen centuries, how much 
longer can credulity be desired? Who are the greatest 
simpletons, those who promise or those who expect? But 
the world must have currency, and if it is blockhead enough 
to take the counterfeit, that is something the priests pretend. 

He had twelve pagan disciples, and he left them pagan, 



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except one. And this mighty judge of human nature did 
not know him, prophet as he was, until near the time. A 
saviour, and yet not save the world from bloody carnage 
for the faith-organizations. As pagans know no better, 
let them act so until they learn better, wherefore it becomes 
all to improve their talents by daily progress. This is 
sound sense and religion. 

As to what the Christians suffered, that is the history of 
fanaticism. They gave as well as received such blows. 
There has been no love lost, from first to last, with Jew or 
Gentile, pagan fanatic. Christian or Hindo. If the Hin- 
do widow elevates herself on the funeral pile, why should 
the Christian fanatic have more credit? Verily, all had 
their rewards in their own fanaticism. But Christians are 
not pagans. Why? Pagan is type for all believers in 
innate-idea absurdities. Jew nor Christian, Mormon nor 
Mahomedan, can shake it off. It applies to all men who 
take such faith. Had there been a resurrection of Christ, 
it would have been before the nation of Jews, who would 
have been converted. Do not preach that resurrection, 
preacher. You stultify your mind. All this story about 
Christ is so pagan, so stupid, that it excites disgust, con- 
tempt, in a rational mind. Had there been such a Christ, 
a true Christ, he would have conquered the world. 

Who, intelligent reader, do you suppose sacrificed Christ 
— God rather? The priests, that their prophecy might be 
fulfilled, their mercenary object obtained, their unholy, 
groveling ambition gratified. Had their pagan minds ever 
considered what they were prating about? Of the essential 
elements of God ? That they were eternal, never amena- 
ble to the earthly elements of dissolution, never responsi- 
ble to mortality ? The disgusting picture is too morbid. 
What a picture of human nature is also presented ! The 
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jBans of a collusive oligarchy. What has been the strong 
arm of- the millions before this monster? Powerless. Even 
in provincial America the ecclesiastical law has moulded 
free men to its austere stupid ferocity. i 

The people who are witnesses before religion and right, 
are ignored, ruled out by fanatical violence. The Jews, 
who had been forced for centuries to vegetate in priestly 
moulds, paid the awful penalties of their dictators' fanati- 
cism, not to be believed when they spoke the truth. Yes, 
the Jews were right; they have had no messiah, no pro- 
phets, no miracles. They have been imposed upon basely, 
by their degraded, merciless, tyrant priests, and now they 
still are under their ignominy. O ! what horrid bonds of 
superstition ! Help, O mentality, the nations of the earth 
from so inglorious bondage. Let intelligent Americans 
discard such faith-faction, and act like free mind requires of 
free men. 

If numbers are any proof of assumptions, then thousands 
of mormons would testify that Joe Smith was a prophet, 
would perjure themselves — nay, tens of thousands — all of 
fifty thousand, if as many, and if necessary. "What is the 
statement of five hundred fanatics worth as to Christ's 
resurrection, the low ancient type of pagan minds at that? 
What is their conscience, aye, that of conventionalism? 
You expose yourself. You do not dupe mentality. What 
are fifty thousand perjured mormons to twenty odd millions 
of American citizens who despise the adultery of polygamy? 
What are a few hundred or thousand fanatics about Christ, 
when the whole Jewish nation disprove the false pretences? 

Above all, what are all your bibles with all their organ- 
izations, in the rebuking light of God's eternal existence, 
idealized by his universal autograph? Had not this petty 
larceny been in the adulterous embrace of a despotic oli- 
garchy, it had been made to pay penalty. Who were his 



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companions, his beloved disciples, his bosom friends, his 
counsellors for the people to confide in? One a traitor, a 
second a perjurer, all deserters, as if conscience striken, 
when their chief was apprehended. And yet this perjurer 
was the rock of the Church. The hierarchy rest ofi per- 
jury ! No wonder, for all faiths are conventional fabrica- 
tions, and th s is asserted without the least fear of success- 
ful contradictions. This all proves that this w^as a human 
combination, that swells out in too bold relief to be disguised. 
What would be for the benefit of man if this system had 
not to be upheld by criminal policy, hardihood of conducts 
in perverting truth? What a system to infatuate man, 
and render him conceited in stubborn bigotry and infatua- 
tion! But w^orse and worse, the author affects that the 
traitor Judas did not promulge the secret that it w^as all 
an imposition, and hence that it was all right! Wonderful! 
Did Judas write this myth, or did his enemies? And 
thereby hangs a tale, a disclosure. What did these 
complotters not conceal in the web of their w^eaving? 
Aye, there is the rub! The omissions as well as the com- 
missions. But of course these writers were consistent. 
Of course they w^ere, as sworn bands, to their faith, their 
cause, their vital interest. Now what mentality could ex- 
pect the faith of conventionalism to be violated for the 
truth of religion ? Answer men in your senses, and that 
understand human nature of conventionalism. Is there 
not even honor, Ves'prit da corps, among thieves, and are 
not all faith-conventionalisms thefts upon the religion of 
God, the vested rights of man, to despoil him of his senses 
and rob him of the truth, all of his effects? This complofc 
has for its paternity the cabinet counsellors of the collu- 
sive oligarchy, that have palmed off thousands such frauds. 
The offence is in the stupid credulity of accomplices of its 
guilt, a betrayed people. But the Jews are a standard 
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for proof; neither the all-powerful priest prestige could 
induce them, nor could subsequent oppressions change 
thera. Thej are the world witnesses as a body, that tlw 
whole is baseless. 

The whole history of Christ, Paul, &c., is an epitome of 
the fanatical antagonism of their days, the rise of a pagan 
sect on a pagan sect, that was vitalized by an imperial 
priest, Constantine, who fixed it on his empire. Paul is a 
pretty good specimen of the genus fanatic, who gave and 
received very heavy fanatical blows. He had a pretty 
good touch of monomania, likely, '' Paul, thou art beside 
thyself,^' unless he sought higher aspirations as a cunning 
special pleader. His conscience never troubled him, as he 
sealed his conventional reasons to conscience. Pretty good 
auxiliary, a brutal murderer. The whole list of crimes is 
pretty well made out, from adulterous polygamists down 
to perjurers, &c., bible endorsers. Who wishes to be in 
such company? Proof is it? What is it of faith-conven- 
tionalism that cannot be proved? Preacher Faber, had 
you studied human nature as it is, not as presented by 
oligarch conspirators, you had done yourself, your mind 
justice. 

But the pulpit has either Miss Nancies or ferocious in- 
quisitors — fanatics that would sacrifice man on their altars. 
What a sacrifice have you made! Repent. Paul could not 
lie, not even a bigot murderer ! Preacher, did you write 
the truth then, after seeing what he said about pious lies? 

Sec. vi. ''The difficulties attendant upon deisticai iufi-. 
delity in regard to the rapid propagation of Christianity, 
and the evidence by which the performance of miracles is 
supported." All is partial. Only a small minority of the 
world, after eighteen centuries, is roped in — all the revela- 
tion is to be gone over again as soon as the story is told; 
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Christianity has been soldiered by imperial priests over 
Europe and colonies, like Mahomedanism over their serfs. 
If it had not been an imposture, why not trust it to mind, 
like God has intrusted religion? He has acted like a 
God of the universe in this, but all faith-organizations have 
acted like bigots, fanatical dictators, spoils party. Aye, 
if it had not been an imposture, why had it not admission 
to all people in Christ's time ? That was his mission. 
Are there not as many Mahomedans as Christians to- 
day ! Are there not more real raw pagans? The argu- 
ment is against Christianity. What mal gn influences have 
not been propagated by oligarchical cabinets? They have 
desecrated religion by their faith; their God-unity by their 
patent incarnation's trinity, and stultified reason, that this 
patent time ex post facto should be the eternal antecedent. 
The folly of mind can descend no lower. 

Mahomedanism is 600 years younger than Christianity, 
and has driven her out from her own capital. How is this, 
preacher? Where is the mighty Bhudism with its mil- 
lions ? These two compare with Christianity all faith- 
organizations. Your two causes for the rapid propagation 
of Christianity are nullities, "God's spirit" and frequent 
performance of miracles. God is not a spirit, and miracles 
are not practicable to man. But both may be ascribed 
with fiilse pretences. The reasons assigned apply to the 
two affiliation faiths, mormonism too. 

Faber ascribes the miracles of the apostles as credentials 
that were essentially necessary. Now, be sure, they are 
more absolutely necessary to-day than ever. Do you hear, 
preachers? You are not believed; then use your miracles. 
Poor mortals who wear the cloak of divers colors of incon- 
sistency. And if ever there was but one proof in the 
world, the only one, that magnificent proof that annihilates 
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miracles, endorsed, if you choose, by prophecy, mystery, 
hierarchy, imperial and papal. 

If Faber is worth anything, his authority is worth citing; 
that kills him and all his type forever — *'so was the power 
of working miracles necessary to convince the understand- 
ing that a religion thus characterized could not but be 
from heaven." The apostles claimed to be ambassadors. 
But an ambassador cannot be received without producing 
his credentials; his mere word and asseveration are insuf- 
ficient. The credentials, therefore, of the apostles, creden- 
tials to which on all occasions they fearlessly appealed, 
were miracles.'^ 

The conviction of the understanding, as a normal princi- 
ple, is as potently necessary to-day as ever, indispensably 
necessary. That characteristic, that this faith was religion, 
is to be thus established, ever necessary. Kow if apostles 
could not be accredited without miracles, much more is 
absolutely necessary for mere petty preachers, who took 
it sixtieth handed from the apostles. Their mere word, or 
that book endorsed by them and type or apostles, is insuffi- 
cient. Now, preachers, for your miracles. They are essen- 
tially necessary, indispensable. This estops you, if you do 
not' bring them. You are inculpated by your own posi- 
tion, preachers, as impostors yourselves. That is your 
position. It is worse, absolutely fatal to you and your 
Christ. You are both forever condemned, guilty of false 
pretences.. Your Christ is a false prophet, you false teach- 
ers. "These signs, declares Christ himself to his disciples, 
shall follow them that believe. In ray name shall they 
cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they 
shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, 
it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, 
and they shall recover." — Mark xvi. It, 18. Either Christ 
was an impostor, or monomaniac and impostor. Who are 



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all his followers, then ? Personal experience alone can be 
satisfied, and let miracles precede the acceptance of the 
gospel. Miracles alone can give adequate testimony. 

If Christianity claims miracles as capital, let her produce 
them, or let her advocates be perfectly silent, as con- 
demned by their own documents forever. Now the author 
undertakes, as protestant, to censure, by even notes and 
quotations, his mother church, for attempting to maintain 
consistently this impracticable inconsistency. 

Christ was most clearly a low impostor, but has caused his 
followers to palm off deceptions of the lowest order of trick- 
ery for eighteen centuries. It is high time that all this 
pagan stultification was annihilated, for respect to the age. 
If kings, priests, and accomplices were its dictators com- 
plete, then it would be needless to expect anything but 
vile, dirty-work substitution for mind^s dignity and truth. 

Faith-organizations, Christ^s included, a blessing to all 
nations? When they are cursed with such ! *' Pretended 
miracles may, without much difficulty, be palmed upon 
mankind for real miracles,'^ says the author. Such only 
have been palmed off on the unsuspecting, by the guilty 
perpetrators and accomplices, either in pubHc or in the 
closet all the time, as well by the talkers as writers, who 
give currency to such false pretences. 

What was said by books have been palmed off for facta. 
All the props of all church-organizations are attempting to 
palm off a miracle of falsehoods at this day. One of the 
best proofs that miracles were never done, the nation of 
Jews was unconverted, a people of standing order for all 
such. This falsehood, thus met, is most miraculously ad- 
vanced yet. But this pagan pretence will ever react most 
completely against the complot. No, it is like all types of 
faith, killed by their own weapons, their two-edged sword. 

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were to obtain of a bank all he wanted, by authority of 
his book written for the purpose? That he was a very 
successful robber, and that the bank people were a stupid, 
gullible people, who had nothing to show for it. So are 
the adopters of any type of faith. The pretext for miracles 
was the vice and fault of the age. Its pagan vice. This 
was the order of its mind, low and priestly, and preachers 
now seem disposed to keep modern mind to its degraded 
mould. "The pagans never once thought of denying the 
reality of the miracles of our Lord;'^ who, but pagans, 
wrote the pagan histories of Christ, and did not they write 
from the vice of the age? Of course friends would not 
write their denial. All chimed in as part of the theatrical 
exhibition. 

Another proof of the falsehood of miracle is the pretence 
set up by the Romish church now. The protestants justly 
ridicule sucli, as protestants, but monotheists do it on re- 
ligious principles, that never vary for patent Christs or 
patent apostles. The proof is ever before us. When was 
the world ever freed from imposture? Since the mormons 
have arisen ? If miracles ever established Christianity, it 
established mormonisra, all types of priestly organizations. 
Jesuit now defines all the diplomacy of priest trickery; the 
day will come when the word priest will be lower than that 
of magician. 

Sir, the Roman church and mormons beat you protes- 
tants on miracles. Christ fed vast multitudes by a mira- 
cle. The preachers feed our imagination on miracles. The 
only proof of this assertion is the evidence of demonstra- 
tion of the fed. They are absent, and all advantage is 
taken of their absence. Ther-e is every room for collusion 
and deception, from the pythoness of kings to their incar- 
nations and Smiths. The evidence of confronted witnesses 
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the collusion was done elsewhere than on the ground — it 
doubtless is a closet work. But *'how came John, and 
James, and Peter, and Jude to write in Greek,'' when 
** originally only Hebrews?" Wonderful question indeed. 
They could not learn itl All faithdom could be nothing, 
but for such endorsements. 

Sec. vii. ''The difficulties attendant upon deistical infi- 
delity in regard to the internal evidence of Christianity." 

Truth is only essentially and constitutionally inherent in 
monotheist institutions. But the author relies principally 
upon ''the character of Christ and the spirit of his religion." 
All that is of pagan ages presents aspirations to notoriety 
by pagan schemes. The great object with such has been 
the acquisition of power and its concomitants. The pagan 
demi-gods sought, according to their characteristic traits, 
to win their demagogical pre-eminence. Moses was 'the * 
prophet, ruler, lawgiver, and god mouth-piece for the Jews, 
and all such ecclesiastical dynasties have usurped all advan- 
tages practicable over mind. Mentality alone has protect- 
ed man. 

All such aspirants have united the sword and the priest; 
all have been dictators, and self-independence cost the indi- 
vidual his life. Can any fanatic of these days, if he have 
the least principle of a man, not pause on the ruins of 
mind's rights thus sacrificed? All these aspirants were de- 
bauched and corrupt, and left no pagan means adopted to 
overcome mankind to their plans, chances, and policies. 

If the times and power of imperialism over the provinces 
were too forbidding to arms, the spiritual plan was the one — 
any or all available. This was Christ's plan. His faith of 
spiritual pretension has sown the seed of spiteful warfare 
and carnage among faith affiliations. Heaven, of his faith, 
was to be won by its practice. All others were to be dis- 
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all had their faith-plans. Has the term of religion been 
ever understood? Hear the author: ''A religion which 
falls in with all the evil passions of mankind.^- No religion 
can do that. All is faith that does that. It is this that 
makes Europe a bear garden to-day. That is the Christian 
faith as well as the Mahomedan. See for yourselves as to 
^' the spirit and genius of the Christian religion." There is 
entire fallacy. It is not religion, as it is faith. The advo- 
cates have claimed their faith, and let them consistently 
have it. What is the history of all past successful faiths ? 
Has there been one but what was propagated by fire and 
sword? Let the truth come. The author refers to 'Mts 
purity and its benignity, its heavenly-mindedness and its 
divine charity." All this belongs to religion, not faith. 
The pulpitman^did not understand the subject. What pul- 
pitman does ? 

To gainsay that Christianity was not an imposture, he 
refers to ''false religions." That is entire nonsense; there 
is but one religion, and that of God, a creation. All such 
are faiths, and upheld by sordid motives. Was Christianity 
ever exempt from the charge ? When did her leaders with- 
hold from love of war, rapine, conquest? That day's sun 
has yet to shine on man. Odin and Mahomet did all this. 
Constantine did not, then? The perjured war Christian, 
who fought under the cross banner. Odin was an avatar, 
incarnation, like Christ and Bhudd. The Lama, &c., were 
all from Asia; that increases its catalogue by Mahomet. 
Asia, the very hot-bed of such false pretences, is then to 
be the corrupt fountain of priest-evil to the world. What 
have all such faiths given to the world ? Where the power 
of the sword was with the originator, as Mahomet, he 
made it the means of all licentious gratifications. Where 
it was modified previously, all innovation peonable has 
been sought by the faith-organizations. Oracles, miracles, 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 277 

prophecy, mystery, were the fashion of all pagan faiths— 
their machinery. It could not have done anything if it 
had been destitute; and the greatest miracle of all has yet 
to be consummated — that of a faith-organization, flourishing 
without miracles claimed. Had Christ been the pure di- 
vinity, he had demonstrated it by illustrating monotheist 
institutions. There is no better proof of his pagan origin 
than pagan prestiges. 

The worst conviction of all faith-organizations is from 
one another. They consider their antagonists real welves. 
The oldest Asiatic ones gave paternity to the type, and 
evince the most outrageous ambition and vile desecration 
of mind^s vested rights. They all assume to supersede reli- 
gion, but plant a horrible train of evils. Had Christ been 
such a being as claimed by his apologists, he would have 
known that his hypothesis was planting another deadly 
feud to the iniquitous band. Can blood come from peace? 
Can deadly strife result from God's blessings ? Away with 
the deception, the bloody, ignoble imposture for mind's 
stultification and ferociousness to fanaticism. 

Are brutal, ignorant priests to teach mind ? or is men- 
tality, that God appointed? Is it reasonable that the God 
of the universe, that made it monotheist, turned it adrift 
for thousands of years without adequate monotheist institu- 
tions, adequate for all time? 

The present state of the Jews proves them the fragments 
of a priest-ridden people; destroyed, in nationality, by their 
national pagan notions and those of the rest of mankind. 
He ignores the subject on his last page, even about ''i:eli- 
gions systems," as if of men. God instituted only one, bui 
men's are faiths. Behold your end in dust. 



Rolert Hall on Modern Infidelity ^ Considered — Where 
does Robert Hall place himself, but on polytheistic infidel- 
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278 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

ity, as the preceding author? All faith-organization is 
heresy to God's religion. This faith '*a religion founded 
on revelation!'^ All misrepresent, misunderstand religion 
and revelation, that both come from God, as monotheist 
' institutions. What is this faith, all faiths as practised and 
intended, but for mercenary, ambitious, unholy speculation? 
But he claims ''the evidences of Christianity.'^ Let him 
give them without sublety if he can. He mistakes the light 
of mind, because its mentality opposes faith-speculations^ 
and endeavors to procure an entire disruption of infidelity 
of faith from religion. Monotheist institutions will revolu- 
tionize the world, as the antecedent birth-right, and drive 
out all such perfidious innovations. God had reared the 
temple of religion as expansive and durable as the universe,. 
as conservative as normal principles. 

This position men of perfidous faith had taken for oli- 
garchical invasion of the people's rights. Polytheistical and 
atheistical infidelity is allied. Morality and religion are 
universally monotheist, and for sublime monotheist good. 
Ko skeptical speculation will answer for religion. The uni- 
verse is that of design; itself the revelation of design, of 
the designer and the preservation by him, who is thus the 
creator and conservator. In this design the law of propor- 
tions is perfectly illustrated. The author says, ''The skep- 
tical or irreligious system subverts the whole foundation of 
morals." Which system is that ? Is it faith-organization ? 
That is irreligious, absolutely, for it deserts the only reli- 
gious ground, monotheist institutions. All such is a type of 
priest arithmetic. But a monotheist position has monothe- 
ist relations — the only one that has for eternity. Nothing 
short of the eternal will answer for the monotheist. What 
less than monotheist happiness and immortality can mental- 
ity expect? It can never mature in time, on earth. With. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 279 

the monotaeist pleasure and ambition yield to normal prin- 
ciples, his immediate models and standards for Deity. 

What, then, can equal the monotheist motives? Poly- 
theistic infidelity looks to^ its idols and self-interest, while 
atheistic infidelity succumbs to its imperial necessity, and 
both consign man to his pagan fate. Monotheist aspira- 
tions present a progression of mind on normal principles, 
that looks to the advance of mentality and his best use of 
all the developments of science and the light of the age. 



The AmerirM7i is the P i ogressive School. — Whence arises 
the growing admiration for American constitutional insti- 
tutions, but their noble protection for civilization and hu- 
iitanity? It is essentially and absolutely necessary that the 
code of mentality be the rule of American action. We see 
the paramount value of this in the mormon degeneracy, 
that is so flagitious, so pernicious to the good of men, that 
their territory should be placed in abeyance to the normal 
principles of this monotheist constitutional Republic. 

A proper oceanic communication to the Pacific should be 
accorded to all west of the Rocky Mountains, and that 
position includes Deseret, that is necessarily a part, not a 
totality. 

As this government is constituted, no conventional code 
of ecclesiastical polygamy can be a normality; as an ex 
post facto it cannot exist. Innumerable conventionalisms 
arise, that monotheist principles alone can counteract and 
annihilate, and the evils of mormonism are of this prolific 
source. 

Man could not exist but for monotheist institutions, that 
he ever violates at the expense of the vital principles of his 
being. It is not, then, enough for man to liave fixith, as 
he must have its proper foundation in facts; not only ortho- 
doxy founded on received opinion, but demonstrated on 



280 AMERICA 'VINDICATED. 

normality. Nothing less can ever satisfy the human mind 
that duly respects the normal principles of thought, and 
conforms thereto in deeds. 



Tht American Model.— Th^ intelligence of American free- 
men is far too potent to be caught by the foggy schemes of 
Asia in her dotage of faith-organizations, or the rickety 
prestige of Europe, both having bible codes the exponents 
of a diplomatic oligarchy, that goes for rale or ruin of the 
people as an inferior caste. 

The American system and model give the normal princi- 
ples of man's being and protection, while all faith-organiza- 
tions are serf-makers, that deprive the people of all the 
functions of free mind as the proper exercise of reason, con- 
science, and good faith. 

The creatures of pernicious collusion may postpone the 
decision of this paramount question of mind's rights, but 
America is now progressing with a solution of the problem 
of the only government that is religious, that recognizes 
God and normal principles, vrhile it ignores faith, church, 
and their abominable dispensations, that the whole world 
does not need, and will dispense with on the ascendency of 
mentality and monotheist institutions. 

She can now decide, on the absolute test of demonstra- 
tion, what is God'S bible by proper, adequate, honorable, 
and satisfactory references, the only evidence, his auto- 
graph, the universe. All else is the clearest forgery, 
whether of Moses, who v/rote his own part, or that of the 
type of priests, who wrote theirs. The greatest imposition 
is mock piety, that establishes faith-organization and its 
bible exponent, endorsed by the spoils partisans. 

All these are corrupt theologico-political factions, prey- 
ing on the vitals of mind and body of the people blind and 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 281 

credulous enough to be deceived by these ignoble traitors. 
What would not their partisans do at their bidding ? 

All true American patriots will ever go for the constitu- 
tional union of their country; but do not most of factions, 
whether political or faith- politico organizations, sacrifice it? 
All the last stultify mind, and are necessarily and abso- 
lutely treacherous to its highest interests. As all mankind 
are born monotheist, their faith-organization necessarily 
impairs all monotheist benefits that much. How is it dis- 
played in one branch of its thousand varieties, the Catho- 
lic or Roman type? The mind of the people has become 
so chattel, that the Pope is recognized by them as the in- 
falUble head of the Church, to whom I shall indite a few. 
pages at present. 



Art England and the English Peo]ple Freel — It was said 
that recently, iu Canada, an editor has been imprisoned for 
peremptory denial of, not the divinity and the truth of 
the redemption of man by the coming of Christ, but denial 
that any such statements are truths. What less than an 
absolute denial of the dogmas of the church could be made 
by Editor Rudolphu? and yet the English government 
and people are called free. Never, after this, let freedom 
be thus desecrated. No adherent of royalty can admit 
exclusion or infringement of royal faith, as that is con- 
sidered an attack on kingly institutions. 

Why, then, should Americans retain such? American 
mentality disclaims all. How much adulation to royalty is 
paid by Americans, in taking the bibles of licentious priests. 
Licentious in the extreme, as no biblical \vriter was ever 
competent to bear witness of God, of whom the universe 
had already testified. What modern knows that Jew 
books w^ere the word of God, any more than those of 
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China, Japan, Egypt? Does God declare it in honorable 
evidence? Kot at all, but proclaims all false. 

England, that has the despotism of Church and State 
united, pretends, through the usurpation and dictation of 
judicial forgeries, to invest the authority of the church 
with the legal power of the common law, which position 
puts it in the equivocal company of pagan idolatry, that 
had even precedence among the Anglo-Saxons. According 
to Jefferson, such men as Hale, Blackstone, and Mansfield 
have helped to smuggle ecclesiastical law into the laws cf 
the land, that freemen were not at Lberty to reject or dis- 
believe as enlightened conscience advised. 
. Universal principles are identified with legitimate laws-r- 
the high behest of mentality, no more. What abominable 
tyranny, to foist Christianity as a part of the common law 
of England, instituting a despotic fraud to suppress con- 
scientious thoughts, words, and deeds! And all that was 
the vile programme. to national wholesale murders. Even 
in Elizabeth's time writs of burning heretics, because they 
were dissenters, were abundantly executed. Had the 
scriptures been right, their truth would have protected 
them. 

What can affect the universal documents of God? 
Man^s thousand spurious bibles? They reflect on the false 
pretences of man. Can penal statutes sustain faith's foggy- 
isms ? The refulgent beams of the meridian sun dispense 
all fogs. Even various States of th's Union have not got 
rid of their old regimes of Church and State unholy alli- 
ance. If it be claimed that they are above all that feudal 
serfdom to kings and priests, mentality inquires what was 
the cause that extricated them from such ignoble condition? 
Was it bible-fdith? This made fiends of mankind. When 
mentality repudiated their mysteries as pretences for mis- 
rule, it was told not to question the ways of God. It only 



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questioned the had ways of man. What an idea of liberty, 
that freemen have to submit to compulsion about the bible! 
What an ignoble, vain conceit of the world, to arrest what 
was denominated heresy to its thousand bibles. 

It is most difficult for some of the States to shake ofif 
this obsolete fogg-yism, as disfranchisement, exile, death. 
Not one of the world^s penal statutes wire for religion, 
but in exclusion thereof. A creed of fanatical faith for a 
State! What a solecism! To whom does conscience be- 
long? To the priests? Are they divine dictators? The 
scriptures would be their own guardians if they were infal- 
lible. God^s autograph is so expressed in the universe. 
All libels on this recoil on the libeller, polythtist or atheist. 
God wrote his ideas by stars, his acts by principles, and 
his purpose by the universe. All others are mere books of 
men, as all bibles. As such, they are all subject to criti- 
cism. By its decision the society of this age and country 
is too much improved for any particular bible, faith, or 
priest that is unworthy of free institutions. 

The universe, the autograph of the Almighty, is all that 
mentality can recognize, and presents evidence so plenary 
and conclusive, that it absolutely prevents the effort to go 
beyond it. That this conclusion is not unanimous, is more 
from the want of the maturity of mentality, which produces 
a demoralizing pettifoggying. When advised, none can 
take stock in particular faith, as it can perceive clearly 
that all its essential stock is guaranteed it in good faith by 
this omnipotent autograph. 

The true position can only be secured to and by mental- 
ity, that is endowed with self-conservative executive powers, 
while all others are null and void, and trade on universal 
capital. Competition regulates the world in commerce. 
iHave States any right to deprive the world of this element 
of conservation? What right have any States to foist 



284 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

spurious bibles on their people, to corrupt their morals and 
right perception of truth? How can the noxious standard 
be thus properly repulsed ? Who are responsible ? Priests, 
dictators ? How can priests be responsible ? Can mental- 
ity alienate its responsibihty ? It cannot, therefore it can- 
not intrust itself to the designing diplomacy of particular 
faiths. In its true functions it cannot know such an ini- 
quitous solecism. 

Pagans may affect deified humanity and incarnations, 
but mentality knows positively all this to be pagan pre- 
tences. Particular faith, no matter of what policy or fix- 
ture, is most obnoxious to religion, by its unjust tenure 
and despotism over the credulity of mankind. 

What establishes and confirms all normal constitutional 
law, is what sanctions all religion. This is one of the most 
profound and important questions for the world's solution. 
What can be the right position for the people ? Nothing 
but normal principles can consecrate law, and that must 
ever be by and through constitutional representative gov- 
ernment. Any other than this recognition is revolution. 
This is altogether monotheist, and comprehends man's pres- 
ent and prospective benefit.* The highest duty of freemen 
is a faithful adherence to their constitutional law, other- 
wise they undermine the whole fabric of true government, 
that is consistent with monotheist institutions as far as 
practicable. It will not do for denizens of a monotheist 
government, as the American, to pretend to higher law 
duties, that allegiance to God is higher than any obliga- 
tions to man. 

The only bible, the true exponent of God of mentality- 
faculty, proclaims the perfect consistency of all principles. 
If laws of government are not in accordance, the alteration 
must be constitutional, altered by normal principles. No 
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AMERICA VINDICATED. 285 

for the infringement of constitnt'onal law, as normal prin- 
ciples do not recognize any such conventional doctrine. 

In a constitut'onal representative government, as the 
American, tliere is no allegiance to God distinct from all 
other obligations. If they were distinct, then the Creator, 
who is perfect, has created an inconsistency, which is a 
solecism; then the last is all man's, and lie must correct his 
absurd notions, whether United States Senator or any 
other official. The very beauty and greatness of the 
American government consist in its perfect adaptation to 
advance in the progressive light and perfection of mental- 
ity. ^0 faith-organization can stand before such, one of 
the holy deeds of popular mind. 

The Constitution is above all imputations of the orgaws 
of faith-organizations, and presents one of the most moral, 
sublime contemplations for the sage, philosopher, and states- 
man of all ages and countries. It is vain for such iiifidel 
organs to assail it, as their puerile treachery is perfectly 
futile, and must brand them as the ignobly ambitious. 
Theirs is the immorality and irreli lion, having yet to 
learn what the noble principles of patriotism and religion 
absolutely require. 'The higher law is the obligation of 
freemen to constitutional law, or normal constitutional 
alteration thereof. 



7'/ie American Educational System. — What is this sys- 
tem ? Does it sustain religion ? Mr. Henley, in the Brit- 
ish House of Commons, advocating an entirely religious 
system, has objected to and condemned the American na- 
tional system of educrition, as not securing the religious 
eUinent, but ''had sunk down into a purely secular system, 
and had produced results which, in the opnion of those 
whose statements he would quote, were not of a very favor- 
able character. H.s extract from Mr Ixiincs was to sus- 



286 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

tain his position: "I would wish to speak with great re- 
spect of the American schools as to their secular character; 
1 would wish also to say that there is something exceed- 
ingly peculiar in those schools, as they profess to be what 
they are not; they pretend to be, as they were originally, 
schools for teaching religion, (hear, hear,) and yet the 
teaching of religion is almost altogether banished from 
theai." 

1 he very reverse is the fact in regard to this thing of 
the American schools, as they w^ere originally schools for 
teaching faith, but now they are the schools for normal 
principles. Before Mr. Henley can successfully controvert 
this, he must establish that clerical faith is religion, an in- 
consistency and solecism. I defy the whole British Parlia- 
ment to make out their case of faith to be one identified 
with relig'.on. 

The people of England, that is, Great Britain, are ahead 
of that splendid monarchy itself that gets rid of all foggy- 
ism, where its comjilicate defence does not forestall it, as the 
usury laws. Were it not for the vile fixtures of faith-or- 
ganizations, the government, the people, who have so many 
elements of freedom, would be ahead bf most of the world. 
The English affect more democracy than the people of the 
United States. How futile! Their laws of primogeniture, 
common law, that was fabricated to uphold the adulterous 
union of Church and State, to uphold the monarchy, the 
defender of its faith, are all a foggy fixture. The heredit- 
ary House of liOrds, the deficient liberty of the elective fran- 
chise, all decidedly are fatal to the proposition. What is 
most amusing, is that America has been reproached for not 
having a national religion. What a solecism! If ever 
there was a country that had a national religion, that is this 
country, and that insured by its glorious constitutional gov- 
ernment. 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 287 

She is accused of degeneration. From what? -All the 
odious iniquities of faith-organizations? She has the no- 
blest position of all nations ever on earth, having separated 
Church from State, faith-faction from government. Our 
national economy is based on eternal religious principles, 
and to all intents and purposes it is a glorious monotheist 
government. Let royalists and their adherents organize 
church establishments as part of the national regime; Amer- 
icans need no such to make our people happy, virtuous, or 
religious. Theirs is the independent, progressive school, 
that rears producers and thinking people. Hers is the rich 
existence of elements to render man a soul, not a mere ani- 
malized being. Her religion excludes organized existence 
as agents for it, much less of God, who is the conservator 
of nature by principles that rule its essence and properties. 
The constant tendency will be to elevate America as the 
great model of Constitutional Liberty, while England is in 
bad repute with the world, that has not very much the sym- 
pathy of true friendship among nations, as she has shown 
her prowess in the world and on its seas, when expedient 
for her interest. 

International hatred has been diffused enough by despot- 
isms, wars and national murders, oppression and conquest. 
Is England pursuing a magnanimous policy in regard to 
Turkey, in defending her from Kussia, fanatical and ambi- 
tious ? Why does she not seek to give Europe the full ben- 
efit of that protection by a United States? We have seen 
the doleful effects of war, ever originated by irresponsible 
want of principles. Who are the responsible war party of 
monarchies? Are they those that face the battle, and pay 
for the ruins in person and purse ? Why are they not made 
to feel the whole responsibility of justice ? then the world 
will have a better guarantee for peace, till the full recogni- 
tion of monotheist institutions, tlat can j { ( nre it. 



288 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

To the Lifallibk Po^e — Sir: You have studied and re- 
ceived the great practical benefits of the age to little pur- 
pose, not to profit by the brilliant lights of monotheist prog- 
ress, and let your people surpass you in the very quintes- 
sence of religions progression of mind. It seems that your 
brother high-priest, the Czar, affects still to defend religion. 
By this bright advance of mentality you both ought to know 
that she needs none of imperial priests' defense. Both of 
you had best defend that which pertains to your own indi-. 
viduality. Let normal education, legislation on the princi- 
ples of morality and religion — not as you construe it, but 
as the chart of the Creator decides — be organized. Who 
made an infallible Pope ? The infallible tools of faith-fac- 
tions, that wrested from the people the franchises and vested 
rights of mind. What have Americans to do in all this 
matter? If they are anything of a mighty people, they 
were made so by monotheist institutions alone. The Pa- 
pacy is claimed as th^ mighty conservative of Europe in by- 
gone ages. But people mistake. There has been national 
virtue in every large nation, as China. Xow, where did she 
get hers? Surely not because Christian, for that she was 
not; not because pagan, for she was that much deficient 
therefor; but because she was that much monotheist. 

Where is the infallible standard of morality and religion ? 
Can it be in that faith that renders necessaiy *^a joint pro- 
tectorate of all the great powers in Europe over the Greek 
Christians in Turkey?'' All this only proves a union of dif- 
ferent faiths against another type of faith. Is this any evi- 
dence of honesty, that one set of people should have to 
watch against another? Is this thing of faith ever to 
wheedle and shock the world ? Why now should not the 
people of Europe demand, as their vested rights, the estab- 
lishment of their civil rights by a United Slates, and sepa- 
rate Church, the bane of State, from the last? 



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AMERICA VINDICATED. 289 

People of the world should never lose sight of their uni- 
versal chart, that they may become independent of all the 
infallibles of all faiths. That they should not become re- 
sponsible for organic frauds of their betrayers, they should 
renounce all. They should vindicate themselves, mind, in- 
tegrity. 

What, infallible Pope, can you gain by your course of 
conduct ? What has the vial of Naples, that contains the 
liquefying blood of some body, to do with religion ? What 
is the winking picture of your Nuncio, Bedina, to prove ? 
The infallibility of your faith ? Be assured, sir, that they 
ignore and compromise conscience. The only evidence that 
could be worth aught, is to have those articles before the 
world, that collusion be not the means of such results. If 
true, they prove very little ; if false, as is believed by hon- 
orable, disinterested minds, then Catholicism is part of the 
falsehood. Come, if you wish to convince the world of mir- 
acles, have them fairly before it. No nation can succeed 
happily by union of Church and State. Yours is the best 
evidence, from old Rome to your present times. They are 
the necessary constituents of feudal, aristocratic, and mo- 
narchical regimes Religion has nothing to do with such, 
and is therefore a personal affair entirely; then why are 
faith-organizations with kings, priests, and partisans ? All 
are and ever must be intrinsically political. They may 
affect dogmas, but such are reflections on the associations. 
Their fall of man is one. All the faith-organizations of the 
world only add to such infirmities, being under supreme 
obligations to all their clannish dogmas; but free minds have 
not to do obeisance to dogmas and their bibles, but to the 
universal chart and its absolute demonstration — not merely 
read of the Creator of Jewism, but to know Him of the 
universe with all rational truth. 

All faith-organizations will be doubted, discarded, anni- 
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290 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

hilated, as part of all kingly goveruments. But your infal- 
libility apparently aids you in the eyes of the vulgar to reach 
the investment of spirituality, to wield a mighty potency. 
That was the humbuggery of a pagan age, and will be the 
disgrace of your church in the monotheist age. That is 
certain; be assured of that. 

There is nothing spiritual for any faith, because it is not 
a fact. By this pretext you assume to be the vicar of God, 
with attributes of infallibility in faith-organization. What 
impiety, if the universe present its infallible chart! Of 
course, as you are vicar of a god, he is not The God of the 
universe. You claim the God of Jew^ Israel. In this, sir, 
you are infallible. But what cruelty to disfranchise and 
vulgarize mind at the expense of its stultification for idola- 
try ! See, Pope, the abject menial vassalage of chattel 
orient! Are not your peons of this type? No free minds 
can now submit to such pagan relics. Let the right names 
be used, that the motives be justly referred to the motive 
powers. All would appear placid, calm, and right about 
your Vatican. 

But where are all the undercurrents that have presented 
storms to the world, and will finally engulf your eternal 
city ? How many plots and massacres have been perpetrat- 
ed in all countries for faith-organizations, and yours conspicu- 
ously? What mighty conclusions in Europe, France, En- 
gland, and your beloved Italy, w^here now the volcano of 
moral revolution is obscured for the present, but to send its 
popular lava anon! What an amount of Indian blood has 
been shed by their Catholic exterpators, attacked because 
they were not Christian pagans ! How was Europe rav- 
aged by bloody wars, to fasten Christianity on pagan mind, 
by Constantine and Charlemagne, the first of whom used 
perfidious perjury as well as sword? What was there but 
political power in all such ? See the mighty surge of bitter 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 291 

feeling now in this country, that would have been deluged 
in blood, had not the church been wisely exiled, banished 
the United States Government. 

Who but the Pope assumed to declare America, the pro- 
perty of an innocent people, should be that of his organiza- 
tions? Your church has claimed high authority for this 
cruel piracy, but you have none but the company fabri- 
cated in your codes. No church can teach, as church, any 
religious dogma. It is all faith-dogma of their innate-idea 
absurd metaphysics. The Pope has no spiritual relations. 
All such pretext is a perfect solecism. No wonder the 
fanatical cry of polytheists should array itself against men- 
tality — a sacrilege of itself against vested popular rights. 
*'Do not teach atheism, for if you doubt polytheism, you 
have to adopt -that!'^ But they are no more in a mono- 
theist age. 

Your political power is waning; political allegiance and 
faith-fealty must recede all over the world. Political alle- 
giance was ubiquitously sought under the mask of faith- 
fealty. But the false position, the false idea becomes ex- 
tinct as reason predominates. What is the true position ? 
That all faith-organizations are iniquitous, amenable by 
crimes. There is to-day on earth, as in the universe, naught 
but temporal power in man, whether Pope, Czar, Bhudd, 
Lama, patent saviours. All else is fictitious, and the claim- 
ants are swindlers on God and the universe. But the mil- 
lions of church members are sincere, and their faith is for the 
reality. Indeed! what reality? That faith is organized ? 
That is all the reality. As to what the partisans, allies, 
parasites, satellites say, I mind it as much as the millions 
of orients, when subsidized to labor for a mere pittance, 
that have no free will as free agents or free minds, but pay 
their horrible black mail. 

But the Pope is Christ's vicar on earth. A vicar to a 



292 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

patent saviour! The shade of a shadow! What office is 
that? The veriest nonsense and humbug. But he, the 
sovereign pontiff, is head of his church throughout the 
world. Catholics believe a general council is infallible in 
doctrinal decisions. What is all that worth ? It all re- 
lates to their faith, as worthless as Mormon or Mahome- 
dan. What rational independent mind ever constituted 
such a council ? I can believe no such thing as long as 
truth is my position, endorsed by genuine demonstration. 
They take the assumption of their own partisans, and en- 
dorse them. In a proper court of equity their evidence 
could have no weight, as facts do not sustain them. You 
have made religion a chattel as far as depended on your 
infallibility, and stultified reason for faith. 

What right had you, sir, to interpose in the internal 
regulations of other countries, as in Central America ? As 
monarch-priest, you permit no conscience to think for itself, 
or adore God, except in the form of worship and super- 
stition prescribed by the moulds of your bigotry. You 
claim censorship over your country's press, and trammel 
every effort of mind to progress to the glorious resurrec- 
tion of mentality. How many centuries have you and 
your fanatical coadjutor, the Czar, Pope of Russia, set 
back the monotheist advancement of Europe ? You both 
seek every ignoble plan of policy to subordinate Latin and 
Greek serfs to your ecclesiastical despotism, and exclude 
all liberal institutions. What a vile dictation is the allo- 
cation of Pope Pius IX. to the civil authorities of New 
Granada, who were to abrogate laws for you, an alien! 
They saw fit to abolish tithes without consulting you, and 
yield the rights of conscience to emigrants, and this was 
a part of your complaint. That is, your ecclesiastical dig- 
nity considered it an indignity, that these freemen should 
be your serfs no longer, and should negative the passive 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 293 

obedience to aliens! As to bewailing the loss of abolishing 
of ecclesiastical courts, the advance of education, the sepa- 
ration of Church from State, and rebelling against the sa- 
cred law of this republic, you should have learned that much 
of religion, that your bigot faith had never taught you. 

Mentality, the custodian of mind, the vicegerent of the 
Creator, who is altogether saviour, from his creative func- 
tions conservative of all organization, excludes all Popes, 
Papas, Lamas, their bibles or codes, faiths, inquisition, juris- 
diction. Then what insolence can be greater than that 
this tyrant of superstition, who holds all that he claims by 
only false pretences, should seek to annul the laws of a 
sovereign State ? This faith coxcomb talks to the New 
Granada Government as a passive creature of his own 
origination. This is the way that such pretenders ad- 
dressed the ancient world. How long will mentality bear 
with such ignoble agents of malevolence and barbarian fog- 
gyism ? What good can ever come of this conspiracy against 
man's best interests ? If the master thus acts, what will 
not the serfs do ? Do they not consider, even now, burn- 
ing too good for heretics ? They would gladly secure in- 
toleration universally, even at the horrible result of the 
world's bloodiest crusade. What can that cross be that is 
to excite never-ending bloody crusades ? Are mankind in 
their senses to hold themselves in abeyance to this burning 
fury, fire-brand of a world's antagonism ? Does this func- 
tionary take every opportunity of causing the world to 
curse him with its bitterest hate ? Will he only take care 
to benefit himself by such acts as will be his most igno- 
minious epitaph? Mentality will number the days of all 
such characters. 



Immaculate Conception! hy an Infallible Pope! — Of whom 
or what? Was it embraced by the universe? then it was 
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294 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

that of humanity! In one sense all such conceptions are 
immaculate, as carrying out the co-ordinate functions of re- 
production. But that any single one in the universe forms 
an exception, is the adultery of ideas and language. This 
is an insult to the conceptions of mentality. This comes 
of the irresponsible abuse of power, delegated not by any 
means, but usurped by a mortal that, espouses to be an In- 
falUble Pope ! When ever can mortal be infallible ? When 
''a king can do no wrong,'^ and that is when he is upheld 
by Divine Inspiration! — that is, when their infaUible serfs 
abjectly acquiesce! Before such all the organs bow; among 
them the press is repressed by a censor, a ukase of impe- 
rial priests. Imperial claims present imperial dispensations, 
that have imperial virtues and potency! 

But are any such dispensations less imperfect because 
they are the edict of an imperial man? Is truth, religion, 
or principle imperial ? What man can deify any man's dis- 
pensation ? They are all imperfect, because they are man's. 
That of Moses is one of the lowest, because identified with 
a barbarian code of Jewism. Christians have necessarily 
an imperfect one; all pagan to its last generation. All dis- 
pensations of paper bibles are pagan legends; the property 
of kings and collusive priests, not of American freemen. 
They all present the peremptory abuse of power when pos- 
sessed, as evinced by cruel legislation under all. regal or 
adulterous governments, protective of the heresies of faith- 
organizations. jS^o thanks to anv for benefits; the entire 
capital of monotheist institutions creates no irresponsible 
power, that transfers your property, rights, and lives, by 
breach of good faith or by murderous inquisitions. 



Ivimnculaie Mentality is far more preferable to mankind 
than any of the assumptions of papal infallibility. The 
pure basis of religion presents more than adamantine firm- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 295 

iiess, as it has tlie conservation of principles. Once the 
Romish Church was in commercial intercourse with Japan. 
Why (lid not the Catholics retain their hold ? Purely for 
want of religious principles, which they grossly violated and 
abused, by the use of perfidious faith-organizations. What 
caused the United States to succeed in their late treaty 
with the same power? By adoption of religious prin- 
ciples, that preside over international comity and ethics 
forever. 

The ancient nations called the others barbarians or hea- 
thens; while the moderns, with as little justice, called the 
ancients pagans, except the Jews, whose Jewism render 
them as amenable to the same charge as the balance — as 
well as all its modern affiliations as any of polytheistic type. 
The great foundations established by the monotheist God 
were to remove from mind any of the seductions of great 
temptations of unworthy interests; therefore this furnishes 
adequate reason that man should not contribute to his own 
injury and prc^'udice by any of faith or church organizations, 
that vitiate mind and vulgarize its best qualities to merce- 
nary sordidness. But the bigot, whose conscience is affect- 
ed by superstitious fears, can scarcely^ lose sight of what 
God spake by Moses. They must know that Moses spoke 
for God, and that all his bible is his bible; not that of God, 
who spoke universal ideas only in his universal chart of rev- 
elations to all mind. As there is a considerable discrep- 
ancy between the universe and Moses, mind has to discard 
the last as unworthy confidence, and a libeller of truth and 
religion. A beneficent Providence has created for the mind 
all-important duties for it to perform, as 'soul up to men- 
tality; hence it must not swerve from its best appreciation. 



Mormonism. — The advocates of this, as all peculiar faith, 
pretend that it is ecclesiastical, and therefore intangible. 



296 AMERICA VINDICATED. 

This is the false pretence of all fanatics. Any code, how- 
ever abominable and odious to mankind, could be thus up- 
held, however it outraged by its nuisances the rest of hu- 
manity. Among its disgraceful edicts is that of polygamy. 
This is impeachable before the tribunal of the Almighty's 
documents. Polygamy violates the eternal principles of 
the universe, as the statistics of physiology prove. Its 
statutes declare a very near equality of the sexes, with a 
slight preponderance in favor of men in numerical majority. 
This at once decides without appeal the right position of 
monogamy. Mormonism is not in conformity with the Con- 
stitution of the United States, whose great principles of 
self and national governments were thereby organized, sub- 
ject to the right standard of mentality. The Mormon is 
ingloriously excluded from a State, by the Constitution of 
the United States. The most liberal, just, equitable, and 
enlightened policy has made this Union what it is, far above 
Jew or Mormon pretext. Its glorious star-banner, surpass- 
ing all the oiiflammes of the world, bespeaks good govern- 
ment and religious beneficence, that shames Mormon de- 
generacy and falsehood, their suppression of truth — that is 
analogous to the doctrine and practice of priests. 

Mormonism is another of the brood of ecclesiastical, Asi- 
atic foggyism, and does not accord with American expan- 
sion of ideas to the progress of mind; that cannot divine 
the mighty future, whose elements are monotheist, that 
alone can unite mankind in truth and friendship. It is true 
that Americans do not need a Jew Saviour, and they cer- 
tainly do not need an American one of Mormonism. Ko 
form of polytheism can ever unite mankind in any universal 
po 'Hon, as all are particularly exclusive of reason, the no- 
blest attribute of mentality. Monotheist demonstration 
vanquishes all Mormon antagonisms. Mentality takes pre- 
cedence of all Asiatics, Jews, or anv of the boasted learned 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 297 

East, in the authority of speech, as the only power on earth 
that deserves to speak; worthy of confidence, as it elicits 
demonstration. It alone promulgates just and equitable 
faith, imparted alone by universal facts. It declares that 
the honorable, sensible world cannot believe such polythe- 
istic paganism without hypocrisy. Faith is an obsolete 
school, a falsehood before truth. Cause and effect, that 
mankind must study, teach that Mormonism is a pagan ex- 
plosion. But the Mormon affects that there are several 
religions, as his, Mahomedan — even as many different uses 
as crocodiles. The world^s sects might worship a different 
one, but there was only one till man started. As science 
prevails, so must the odious family of polytheism decline. 
Nature balances the irreligious state of the Mormons by 
death only. 

Infallibility. — Who claims it on earth ? The Pope and 
imperial priests! On whose authority? That of their 
church. What entitles that to this extraordinary position ? 
The inspiration of their bible. Whence is such inspiration ? 
From God. Here is positive fallibility at once, for God 
is not a spirit, and therefore does not inspire. His faculty 
is that of mentality ; that is supreme to his abeyance, to his 
own atmosphere, which he created. The deity of mentality- 
faculty is supreme to inspiration. As to such bible it is 
worthless, fallible itself in all departments, compromising its 
integrity and veracity. 

1st. In the most important of all, the bible writers egre- 
giously mistake faith for religion. This is a most extraor- 
dinary error for people pretending to inspiration, which 
they as erroneously mistake for mentality, the whole theme. 

2d. They are utterly ignorant of normal principles, that 
rule the universe, which is proved not only by the paucity 
of their real numbers, as by their perpetual mutual antag- 



298 AMERICA VllSfDiCATEf?; 

onisms. All mankind can be reached by the truths of uni- 
versal monotheist institutions, but never by particular faiths. 
3d. They have as iguominiously as impudently sought to 
regulate God's and mentality's economy, to which principles 
alone can be functionaries. 



The Diplomacy of Rule. — The fnedal, aristocratic, and 
monarchical policy is to secure all the power practicable, 
to place man at its absolute command and government. A 
man acts as a dupe, or knowingly a culprit, if he acquiesces 
in the deep frauds of organized faith-factions against vested 
rights of mind. Who can repeal these ? No responsible 
power is competent for such a deed. Free mind can never 
permit itself to be misrepresented by such organizations. 
The moderns cannot be surprised at oriental serfs adopt- 
ing such frauds, but they must be at free minds. The 
vested birth-rights are as immutable as principles. Ex 
post factos conflict with such. None but fanatical frenzy 
can adopt them. Mentality adopts what is laudable; the 
adoption of illaudable, as a bloody redemption of a patent 
saviour, is a reflection on pagan mind. 

England, as monarchy, is far ahead of the United States 
in Christianity, as that faith is part of its government, the 
defense of which is intrusted to the executive monarch. 
But the United States are that much ahead of England, 
and all other monarchies that necessarily adhere to such 
position in religious principles, of which their government 
is the defense, as they diverge daily more and more in 
representative constitutional government by mentality from 
church, standing armies, or martial power, and all the 
trumpery of pagan mind. How long is the world to be 
disturbed by these tory factions of faith? Are the people, 
the responsible representatives of free minds, to have their 
supreme rights alienated by such irresponsible cliques? 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 299 

But these embodiments of national faith are the conserva- 
tives of the faith. They hold fast to the Mosaic protec- 
tion. They are all types of faith-factions, and afford as 
much protection to the people as the wolf does to the 

lamb. 

But Moses had embodied all the code that was, that 
could be found nowhere else. Of what and for whom? 
Of Jewism and for Jews. By that these faithful Israelites 
claim the world as the righteous, as far as they could by 
might, but that God made very small. Their affiliations— 
that is, other factions— have arisen on their ruins, and have 
even trampled on their original basis as suited their per- 
fidious objects. To faith-faction its clique has added fanati- 
cism; to that, frenzy, to that, the fire and faggot. How 
often has the successful party branded their conquered op- 
ponents with the name of heretics, oppressed them as infi- 
dels not to religion, but their organized faith, not only in 
name but in fire! Even now in this relic of an expiring 
pagan age the name of heretic but feebly expresses the 
relentless animosity of reckless imbecility. 

The Reign of Terror is cited by polytheistic factions 
as the child of French atheism in all its horrors, but 
monotheists demand to know what but polytheistic antece- 
dents gave them paternity? Yes, say the confuted, their 
codes Ind cabinets are to govern the world; as long as 
spoils last, so long will they basely ignore conscience and a 
monotheist God. The mentality of free mind demands of 
rio-ht to know what is to govern the vicious popes, and 
cz°ars, and lamas, and the imperial high-priests of mfal- 
lible church-factions? Are the vicious factions? The 
satellites of vicious churches? What can mind expect of 
faith-factions, who have acted time out of mind as faith- 
demons to each other? Who, of all the underlings, can 
govern the sainted infallible miscreants, whose types made 



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laws or pretexts of laws to suit themselves ? Upon what 
basis can such miscreants speak to Americans, when they 
have arrested all rights of free minds, springing the odious 
previous question to cut off, not only all discussion, but all 
future progress to correction of faith-errors, but are daily 
adding the nonsense of more, as immaculate conception of 
a breeding woman as virgin ? 



Ddty is a Monotheist. — All his creation is monotheist, 
and so is his language the most beautiful and sublime. 
There is nothing of Jew or Christian, Mahomedan or Bhudd, 
Mormon or any other pagan about it, as they are all harsh," 
guttural, and uointelligible jargon — conveying conflicting 
nonsense and elements of strife. 

A free mind could desire no better epitaph than that of 
"Monotheist," inscribed as an evidence of consistent sin- 
cerity. The only evidence of consistent sincerity is fur- 
nished by monotheist institutions. Xo matter what may be 
the pretensions, feudal or aristocratic, of man, if their posi- 
tion does not express the monotheist language that the 
monotheist universe proclaims, such is an impostor. The 
practical illustration has been by the American government, 
that has taught the Jews, faith-organizations, that they 
know nothing of government or religion. This, then, takes 
precedent. How is it that the right does not prevail over 
error? Does any honest mind believe that these faith-or- 
ganizations of kings, priests and spoilsmen, that are outrag- 
ing all rights of God and free mind, are anxious, ready to 
exchange Moses the official of Jewism, or the bible its offi- 
cial? Consummate bribery, corruption, hypocrisy, persua- 
sions of pagan mind — pagan acts have produced these results 
— and these officials, the beneficiaries of faith-organizations 
that annul all purity, look at the spoils. The great object is 
to defeat the official action of mentality, the official faculty 



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of monotheist institutions. This whole horde of power, with 
all the serfs of official action, have been organized to carry 
out the abomination of corruption. They have resorted to 
all manner of means, enlisted by such gigantic frauds, to legis- 
lative, judicial, and executive departments. These cliques 
and organizations can only represent themselves in religion, 
and can represent no other free minds at all. The pretext 
is a fraud and conspiracy against free mind at the tribunal 
monotheist— alone capable of adjudicating free mind's rights. 
Their guilt is manifest in this whole matter. The ultimate 
unanimity of monotheists will be the result, only to be se- 
cured on the satisfaction of mentality by absolute demon- 
stration. Mind has to decide according to principles, the 
only absolutely right decision. 

It is this that gives that wise sensibility, that governs 
high-souled honor and reputation. Mentality must secure 
that deep, solid knowledge of human nature, under all its 
guises, masks, and circumstances. These prepare man to 
live in good faith with the whole world; not to conspire 
against his people as ambition and avarice mislead, much 
less to be self-stultified as a dupe on free mind on one's self, 
or that of others. 

But atheists are concerned to know about organizations 
of the soul or mentality, and even of Deity or mentality- 
faculty. The beautiful organization of the universe is an 
adequate answer to the whole atheistical demur, evidence 
of the organizing faculty of God, and that gives amplest 
funds or means for soul-organizations. But all Deity's qual- 
ities, they assume, are human, taken from man's picture! 
Indeed! how could man have ideas of real virtues of reli- 
gion? He enjoys their benefits, and can appreciate their 
origin. O, atheist! they are not innate, as you ought to 
know. Then how, sir, did man get them? From their 
originator, of course. Surely he is the reflected origin, and 
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can be delineated by them. They are his ideas of reality, 
canvassed on the chart. The very name of universe implies 
passive action, that recurs necessarily to its great centre. 
Nature, that embraces her multiplicity of phenomena and 
developments of combinations, presents properties only of 
causation, identified in cause and effect. Let all deductions 
be made of all kinds, and they induct to this invariable 
element. 

What is the Universe necessarily? — It is necessarily mon- 
otheist, because normal. What kind of revelations must 
necessarily be for all mankind ? They must necessarily be 
monotheist, as they are delegated to mentaUty by mentality- 
faculty. God's documents could not be written in less than 
the universe, which presents universal revelations. How 
absurd, then, are all the bible advocates, to pretend that 
Jewism embodied His revelations! All this is the height of 
pagan ignorance. In the presence of God's universal docu- 
ments, all such bibles wear on their face the veriest evi- 
dence of entire nonsense, contemptible to mentality. As 
all His documents are universal, all others are interpola- 
tions; and though the last might pretend to times immemo- 
rial, still they are utterly excluded by the first, that take 
precedence at the birth of time as their antecedents. 



Whence the Universe necessarily 1 — Monotheism discloses 
with positive certainty that it is necessarily from an ade- 
quate cause. Whence is necessity itself ? From an ade- 
quate cause. What is necessity? The normal position of 
universal cause and effect. What is fate, chance, casualty? 
The same, exhibiting the phenomena of effects from ade- 
quate causes. What gives appreciation to their existence ? 
Nothing less than mentality, that pervades the universe. 
What is the universe without mentality ? It is the same 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 303 

as a blank, nonentity— not appreciated. What originated 
mentality? Itself? Is reproduction self-existent? Cer- 
tainly not, as it positively depends on concurrence of cause 
and effect. Could matter originate it ? If so, then a sub- 
ordinate could originate its supreme, which is utterly ab- 
surd. Then it is absolutely certain that a supreme cause 
originated the universe necessarily; that is, organized it 
normally. 

What collateral proof have we that the universe is not 
self-existent? The most decisive, in its organization, being 
only the exponent of time from its birth, and clearly not of 
eternity; and the exponent of definite systems of spaces,, 
not of infinity. Eternity and infinity are identified with 
Deity. Who and what, then, is Deity? Nothing less than 
mentality-faculty. He is perfectly independent of matter, 
of universal organization, as he holds it in perfect abeyance. 



What is the Purport and Object of Mentality? — Mere 
sensual gratification? Does that satisfy society? Does it 
not disgust mind, and brutalize mankind ? Is such the ob- 
ject of a perfect mentality-faculty? Nothing less could 
create the universe, yet perversion would neutralize the fea- 
tures of perfect mentality- faculty. This inconsistency is not 
tenable — as unjustifiable. Mentality is, then, to solve the 
mightiest problem of creation, and define for itself and 
mankind all its normal principles and normal purposes. 

But for this faculty the designing people of the world 
would forever band themselves together, and act most op- 
probriously under the guise of their faith, and outrage all 
the rights and interests of mind, and yet profess that it was 
ecclesiastical law ! 

Its superlative function is not only to defeat the base 
machinations of diplomatic conspiracy and despotic oppres- 
sion — all the anarchy of conventionalism as all its despotism 



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— ^but pursue affirmatively the loftiest objects of immortal 
fruition. In its monotheist capacity alone it can meet all 
the terms of atheistical ideas, that subvert the creation and 
man's best destiny, and cheer the despondent, who other- 
wise might seek the mock shelter of a mosaic nonentity in 
Jewism or affiliations. 



Self-Deception. — People deceive themselves about faith- 
organizations, that produce mental slavery against light 
and religion, that can arrest all this agitation. More than 
half of the world are in mental slavery and peonage, faith- 
peonage. If any have to give in faith adhesion, let it be 
that of facts. Any other is palming off a detriment un- 
justifiable by any normal principle. 

At the head of the world deception is kingly govern- 
ment, that deems it expedient to have a triune aid to sus- 
tain the most power. What has all such ever done for 
mankind, but enslave mind and intensify its stultification ? 
What is Jewism but a mass of absurd aggression on mind? 
If the world were to be ever under its regime, it would, be 
the essence of folly. The ignorance of the Jews of the 
essential laws of humanity is most striking. Their igno- 
rance of the great laws of progress, of commerce, and finance, 
making the most beneficent use of money-usury, is a sole- 
cism that only the great laws of demand and supply can 
remedy. This foggyism has had the servile copying of all 
going for passive obedience. 

Priests know less of religion than other people, who are 
competent by study and intelligence equal to appropriate 
functions of mind. What is their faith to mentality, that 
cannot honor any such ? One reason that the clergy, allied 
with kingly power, had such malign influence in past times^ 
was from the credulity of the ignorant multitude that 
priests had the gift of faith, and could impart it to parti- 



AMERICA VINDICATED. 305 

sans! All such organizations pretend that the way of 
safety now lies through their domains, and they threaten 
the refractory with the most awful penalties, devised by 
spiteful imbecility if unsuccessful. Mentality only can ex- 
plode this nonsense. 



If Adequate Penalties he Sustained, then Crimes Decline 
in Proportion. — Criminal records decrease as effective po^«^ 
lice prevails. But that does not meet the question, as the 
most effective is in standing army regime, yet the statistics 
show much remains to be done. What are the means? 
The most efficient of all is that which giveth enlightened 
public sentiment. Whence is that? The best reform of 
the world can be secured by the sincere friends of human- 
ity. ^N'ow if moralists are sincere, let the proper means be 
sought. In the first place, all the means that bring about 
a criminal crisis, from individuality to totality, must be 
suppressed. A conservative progress, to insure a progres- 
sive conservative, must be adopted. 

Any organization of faith that essentially engenders an- 
tagonism, as all does, is to be eradicated by the essential 
elements of normal principles. There are no principles but 
those of Deity, and they are necessarily monotheist. All 
that mankind have can be no other than the best apprecia- 
tion thereof. When they take any position variant, the 
same is impeachable. What can freemen think of a clique 
of men deciding on conventional bibles and dogmas, as the 
Mosaic code and the immaculate conception of the woman 
Mary! They can declare any nonsense about their faith- 
organizations, but the sacred laws of physiology declare 
them heretics to God's laws and principles! No set of 
men can propagate such a position exempt from the vilest 
nonsense. What is there of faith-organization that is not 
most stupid nonsense, resulting from pagan materials? 
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What a miserable dwarf the Romish faith is, that stultifies 
its votaries with the lowest pagaa ideas! The world could 
never be extricated from its low dogmas, if man had to de- 
pend on this rickety affair. How long shall this adulter- 
ous blot of government and church debase one of the fair- 
est portions of the world, whose sons are those of genius 
and liberty, eager for ilie equal triumph of a brotherhood 
of nations? 



2'here is hut One Way in Dealing with Mankind. — But 
a large mass cannot or will not see all this, from the uni- 
versal prejudices of education, self-interest, or fear of indi- 
viduals. Even the more advanced in the light and bless- 
ing of mind cannot see normality, for their conventialism, 
their puritanism, their policy. All this enslaves mind to 
the peonage of fashion and dictation of absolutism. 

The ruling dynasties of the world seek to beguile man- 
kind into their snares, as all that is their gain. The great 
difficulty is with the people, to extricate themselves from 
the sophistry and brute force of their oppressors, who add 
insult to injury on all such occasions. What are the peo- 
ple to do for proper relief? There is one mighty means 
for the relief of the world from absolutism of government 
and faith. It has only to recur to America; the radiant 
light shed by that makes denizens of its citizens. It can 
trust to no class or type that ever seeks all advantages. 
It can only rely on normal principles. Some may object 
to America, but not on just grounds of denizenship. The 
world has through her all the potent means of elevating 
itself. In this country denizenship has its normal princi- 
ples in the advance. Here it is not as Moses says or as his 
satellites dictate, but as God says and demonstration re- 
quires. How can we reach all that? Just as we deal 
with mankind in all other respects, on the intrinsic facts of 



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the case, relying alone on truth, and discarduig not only 
the essence, but the appearance of all sophistry and du- 
plicity. 



What Individual or Society can Exist in Safety without 
Normal Principles'? — They all are of a character abso- 
lutely and essentially necessary, to elevate and bless man- 
kind generally, universally forever. It is absolutely certain 
that there is a God, and that his normal principles abso- 
lutely rule the universe. In this all is certain, fixed, and 
absolutely positive, and all else is conventional, unsafe, 
dangerous, and fatal to the good of all. Conventional or 
peculiar faith is the language and currency of swindlers. 
Mankind have to beware of this ferocious and insidious 
wolf in sheep^s clothing, and its exponent, the bible. What 
do its advocates that possess irresponsible- power care, so 
they get their advantages, rule and money? What do 
absolutists care for the right government of the world, 
when their violation of mentality, honesty, integrity, con- 
sistency, and justice, the best part of religion, evinces their 
violation of normal principles to triumph over constitu- 
tional liberty ? Is any one disposed to counteract atheism, 
infidelity? In what other way can any act the man, but 
repel all aggression, all impress of absolutism, that dimin- 
ishes the blessiugs and lights of constitutional liberty? The 
policy of absolutism is that of hypocrisy to God and man. 
Its partisans consult their convenience and advantage no 
matter what becomes of the balance of mankind. 



What Code is Right? That which is Sacred. — That of 
normal principles consecrated to mentality. That code is 
sacred. This is the code of American freemen, and alone 
gives normal precedent. Where can the standard for 
society be but at the head of normal principles, as if placed 



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elsewhere it is amid the dregs of crime ? This code de- 
velops resources defeated by faith, that is political bar- 
gaining. What cares the Pope for the dignified develop- 
ment of Italian resources, physically and mentally. That 
would defeat his Popeship. The code of faith is unscrupu- 
lous of man's mortal struggles, provided it carries its un- 
principled designs. It never learns by experience. It is 
even impeachable, as saturated with the poison dregs of 
life. All its pretexts are ridiculous libels, that the world 
will repudiate as imbecile. Its books are only clerical as- 
sertions. What are all such worth from men interested in 
their adoption by any means, as if repudiated, they are 
repudiated and disgraced ? 

The antecedent functions of the universe negative all 
polytheistical nonsense and quibbles. But faith says it is 
not polytheistic! Who believes that assertion? Serfs? 
Mentality cannot. Polytheism in all its forms presents its 
antagonism of conflicting powers, while religion allays all 
such, and has no identity representing the just rights of 
the universal documents.- But, says the bigot, my mind is 
made up. On what is it made up ? Religion is sacred, 
but all facts, as all bibles, are subjects of supervision. 
Why? Because religion is the creation of God, but the 
last two are creatures of man, and are a prohfic nursery of 
errors and evils. But still worse, the prejudices of the 
faith-world are arrayed against the persons that think for 
themselves, that act out the truth of their existence, seek- 
ing xo be independent of the mab'gn influence of faith- 
organizations and regimes. 



What is the Jurisdiction of Faith 1 — It is only tempo- 
rary at best, small in circle of locality, being excluded by 
the jealous rivalry of ambitious antagonisms, that take all 
unprincipled advantages by the purse, sword, and diplo- 



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macy, to circumvent the reigning dynasties. Not so is the 
jurisdiction of monotheist institutions, that are identified 
with the conservation of the universe, eternity, and infin- 
ity of space. Tliere is fraud and conspiracy in everything 
against mind in life, and faith is only a modification of 
political capital used by popes, imperial priests, and serfs. 
Look at the general wretchedness pervading the world by 
faith's conspiracy. What position of the world will insure 
it against all such conspiracies and collusions? None short 
of monotheist institutions, those of the Great Author of 
universal conservation, to which he has committed all man- 
kind through mentality. What does the world need of 
faith's agents ? It has its glorious antecedent, that gives 
office to all, and graces the same; whereas the offices of 
faith are disgraced by their incumbents. 

The claimants of faith arrogate to have forefathers de- 
cide for their posterity! Republicans say not as our 
fathers merely did, but as normal principles prescribe to 
enlightened mentality, that must be duly instructed in the 
progress of normal education. Faith, the pet of kings and 
priests, to be popular, should pursue what is just liberality 
to secure all that is right. But that is not characteristic. 
Where did faith procure her capital from ? It borrowed 
all, to say the least, that is of any value, from monotheist 
institutions. Can its priests give mind pure religion? 
From what source? The Jew or Judaized bible? That 
is only their doctrines. Monotheist institutions alone can 
give permanent satisfaction and extinguish faith agitations. 



God is Monotheist to Sustain Concentrated Unity of Action. 
— As a subsequent, all patent saviours are disqualified be- 
fore their antecedents. The pretext for them is not an 
organic act of the Creator. How could an obscure being, 
of an obscure nation, and of an inferior planet, have co- 



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partnership with the Creator of the universe, who is unity 
concentrated, and w^ho the universal documents positively 
declare is only one cause ? The universe says not a word 
aboutsubsequents, but speaks positively of an adequate ante- 
cedent. Why cannot mankind perceive all this ? Whence 
comes public credulity ? It mistakes opinions for a stand- 
ard. What simpletons does peculiar faith not make of its 
followers, as Millerites, spiritualists ? Why do not talented 
men help prevent all this ? Selfishness may prevent them 
who sacrifice to popularity. As to absolute power, only 
give this to a thing called king, and he assumes that all 
that is divine concentrates in him ; that the right, and of 
course the power, of kings is divine. Does any one doubt 
it ? Do not these politicians arouse up all collusion at once, 
by obsequious tools called priests, who share the spoils for 
the most of the lion^s share? Does any subject disbelieve 
them ? How can he disbelieve their scriptures or written 
testimony? The king is defender of their faith, and forces 
subjects to conformity. What made kings? The imbe- 
cility of the people, that also gave them their power, as- 
sumption, pretexts, and usurpation. Are not these enough 
to clothe priests in all their brief authority, endorsed by 
bayonets and inquisitions? The idea of patent saviours 
conspires against the integrity of God's creation, the unity 
of His Being, the purity of His universal records, the au- 
thenticity of His autograph, an act of fraud or what is sur- 
reptitious, violative of normal principles of cause and effect 
— essential to universal conservation. Deity does not com- 
promise by proclaiming His own imbecility. This writ of 
error is brought by the priests, not by God, whose records 
only preserve His own perfect mentality-faculty. All others 
are pagan. Any saviour, but God, is a pagan idea, identi- 
fied with polytheism, that destroys the unity of action, and 
detracts from God's perfection. 



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The Mind must he Pure, Intact. — The unprincipled are 
aware that they can trespass on the world, and avail them- 
•selves of their supposed license in the absence of penalty, 
but the fearful retribution of violated normal principles 
recoils on the guilty. In what part of the normal code 
can such licentiate abstain ? 

Mind has ever to beware of unchaste and impure deeds, 
in due protection of itself, to have nothing to be ashamed 
of by best friends. Erroneous habits otherwise will be en- 
gendered, and may initiate if not indoctrinate their victims 
to ruinous expenditures. There are various temptations of 
the world that fascinate if not seduce to ruin. Mind must 
regard all the species. 

What but seductive gambling is lottery prizes? What 
less than the virtue of temperance can adequately protect 
one against drunkenness, and crime, its companion? Im- 
provement of virtue can alone diminish, arrest all the unli- 
censed, unprincipled avenues of crime, of which drunken- 
ness and faith are the most prolific parents. 

The mind is often duped by the glare of those criminals 
that public sentiment considers of the order of heroes and 
permits to escape, and yet calls for punishment of petty 
offenders. How is this ? Is it by unprincipled division of 
public plunder? Mentality has been of slow grovvtli, be- 
cause the developments of mind are made by the discover- 
ies of science, that necessarily gives advance to civilization. 
It is this last that must avert the evils of faith, and pre- 
sent its cure by education on normal principles, that alone 
perpetuate free institutions and give their system of verifi- 
cation. Such alone will secure mind its proper employ- 
ment of time, and give it a star banner of peace and bene- 
fit to all nations, an irradiating light of monotheist efful- 
gence. 



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What ivill be best for Americans? — They have to advance 
one step more to secure and comprehend all independence. 
Then they have to assert their monotheist institutions in 
full freedom, and eschew all conventional faith. As the 
last is a nullity, of what earthly use is its exponent, the 
bible? That is nugatory. The solution of the question 
discloses covertly, as stern, rigid, and relentless absolutism, 
that presents in its best moments the most icy indifference 
to man's good. 



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